Student group takes over a corner store to protest nutrition taxes and warnings

"The project comes after documents obtained by The Canadian Press showed the federal government has weighed the possibility of a tax on soft drinks.

"We're looking to have people come by the store and get a glimpse of what it's like if the government is going to hold your hand through life, over-tax, over-regulate, over-ban everything that's bad for your health," said the group's co-ordinator, David Clement. 

"The point is to ask Canadians (whether) we need a nanny state or big government telling us how to live our lives or should adults be free to choose when it comes to what they put in their own bodies, what they eat, what they drink."

The group is the Canadian arm of an international network of libertarian students, and Clement said it comprises around 1,000 members at universities in Ontario, Quebec, Prince Edward Island and British Columbia."