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Minister Paradis misrepresenting Expert Panel’s asbestos report, says Panel Chair

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAY 4, 2009 Ottawa, ON – Public Works Minister, Christian Paradis, is misrepresenting the report of an International Panel of Experts on asbestos, says the Panel Chair, Dr. Trevor Ogden. Speaking on a recent national CBC program, The Current, Ogden said that the Minister “is wrong” in telling media that he Panel did not agree. [...]

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Government’s Failure to Disclose Asbestos Study

  Health Canada is not publishing the report on the risk of cancer associated with chrysotile asbestos complied by an expert panel it assembled in 2007. The report has been made available through an Access to Information Act request from the media. Experts involved in the panel have raised some concerns in this regard, as the [...]

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Immoral Exports

By exporting asbestos, a carcinogen, to developing countries despite its well-known health risks, Canada does not only export harm to the environment and health, but is also establishing a dangerous precedent that may cause a major setback to an effective international environmental convention. In the April 21, 2009 edition of the Ottawa Citizen, Kathleen Ruff writes that “Canada’s [...]

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Revealed At Last! Health Canada’s unpublished report on Chrysotile Asbestos obtained through the ATI Act

Health Canada’s controversial report examines the relationship between cancer risks and exposure to chrysotile asbestos exposure in Canada. The expert panel that assessed the exposure-response relationship concluded that there was a “strong relationship” between lung cancer and chrysotile asbestos. The report has come under fire by the panel chairmen who has criticized the lengthy delay of [...]

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