[All] Green Party of Canada ratifies resolution to Ban Artificial Water Fluoridation

[Carole Clinch]

*Green Party resolution RE Ban on AWF: *

http://greenparty.ca/motion/g10-p19

  *****Motion Preamble:
*WHEREAS fluoridation products such as hexafluorosilicic acid and sodium
silicofluoride are toxic by-products scrubbed from the smokestacks of the
phosphate mining industry, and less than one percent of treated water is
actually ingested by people and the remaining 99 percent is discharged into
the environment;

WHEREAS fluoride is not removed in sewage treatment and remains a toxic
constituent of the effluent discharged by treatment plants to rivers and
lakes, and background levels of fluoride in the Great Lakes exceed the
Canadian Water Quality Guideline (CWQG) for aquatic species, and fluoride
concentrations in sewage effluent are 5-10 times in excess of the CWQG. At
these concentrations fluoride is known to be toxic to a variety of water
species such as salmon, caddisfly, daphnia & others;

WHEREAS the use of drinking water to deliver medications is not medically or
environmentally sustainable, and the use of unregulated, unapproved
medications in drinking water, without a prescription or informed consent is
medically and environmentally not sustainable, and the daily dose of
fluoride cannot be controlled and health effects from fluoride are not
monitored;

WHEREAS 97 percent of Europe does not use artificial water fluoridation
products in their public drinking water supply, and 94 percent of the
world's population does not use artificial water fluoridation products in
their public water supply;

WHEREAS no statistical difference exists in rates of dental caries between
areas that use artificial water fluoridation chemicals and those that do not
(Statistics Canada);

WHEREAS the Green Party affirms that the precautionary principle should be
used where there is evidence of potential harm in the absence of complete
scientific conse*nsus.

Motion Opera*tive:
BE IT RESOLVED that the Green Party seeks to introduce and support
legislation that will ban artificial fluoridation products in public
drinking water.

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Carole
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