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Support Asbestos? Tell Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq to Just Say No!

Dear friends, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq is the only health minister in the Western world who supports use of asbestos, even though it remains today the biggest killer of Canadian workers. Asbestos goes on killing for decades. It’s impossible to use it safely. Yet we’re exporting asbestos to developing countries where people are unprotected and we’re failing to [...]

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Letter to Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq

Below is a letter that was sent to Health Minister Leona Agulukkaq on December 1, 2009. —– Dear Minister Aglukkaq: As Canada’s Minister of Health, you have a special duty to protect public health, a duty which overrides all other considerations. Statistics Canada reports that 461 new cases of mesothelioma were recorded in 2006, an increase of 67 per [...]

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Quebec health officials speak out against asbestos

Quebec health officials speak out against asbestos Critics send letter to federal Health Minister demanding action but risk backlash in province that mines the deadly mineral Martin Mittelstaedt Environment Reporter, Dec. 2, 09 A number of prominent Quebec public health officials are among the signatories to a letter concerning asbestos sent to Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq, asking her [...]

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Quebec government holding on to asbestos-cancer report

1) There is an article on the CBC website, Quebec health officials denounce asbestos. At present, there are two votes recommending the article and no comments. If you can, please go vote and post a comment. CBC websites tend to get quite a bit of public attention and this also increases the chances that CBC [...]

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