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Take Action: End Public Funding for the Asbestos Lobby

While cutting funds from women's groups and aboriginal healing programs, Prime Minister Harper wants to give away $250,000.00 of taxpayers' money to fund an asbestos lobby group (the Chrysotile Institute). Write to PM Harper and tell him to stop this callous and immoral misuse of taxpayer funds to export asbestos disease to developing countries.

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Federal government continues to ‘wrestle’ with asbestos issue: Strahl

The Hill Times, June 22nd, 2009 NEWS STORY By Harris MacLeod Federal government continues to ‘wrestle’ with asbestos issue: Strahl Ottawa spends millions to remove asbestos from Parliament Buildings, but dumps 200,000 tonnes of it per year in Third World countries. Federal Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl, who was diagnosed in 2005 with a rare and terminal form of lung [...]

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