[All] Same issues re: Environment and Health Risks.

[Louisette Lanteigne]

Hi folks

Today I was listening to The Current on CBC radio. I heard the head of the Canadian Cancer Research Socieity and the Canadian Physicians for the Environment speaking on quality of studies being used to determine the safety of products.

Tar Sands, Environmental Monitoring and Pre-development monitoring share the same bloodly flaw: Industry does it's own tests and there is a lack of transparency. Our government has been allowing this to continue for decades.  The cost for independent studies is too high for our government to take on.

While environmentalists have felt outrage on the lack of data regarding the Tar Sands hazards, similar outrage continues in the medical community with issues such as the continuance of mining Asbestos in Quebec, (know carcinogen) the continuance of smoking, the continuance of cell phones (Linked to Brain Cancer. The product is still without proof they're safe.)

Many known causes such as BPA have been removed from products such as baby bottles but these good doctors are asking Canadians to support a National ban now. They want urban pesticide bans implemented on a national level.  In their words, we must take action now "Before the bodies start piling up". 

Right now, it takes approx. 20 years exposure to a carcinogen for 
cancer to set in. It is beyond difficult to prove product or chemical has caused cancers in a communities because this data takes years to formulate. It's subject to enormous variables and often paid for by industry.

The Canadian Cancer Research Society and the Canadian Physicians for the Environment are asking Canadians to write to the Ministry of Health and their elected reps to demand the closure of the Asbestos mines, call for a ban on cigarettes and demand that industry pay for independent studies to prove their products are safe before they sell it. 

If you'd like to share you concern on this matter with ministry officials, here are some emails you can use: 

Federal Minister of Health Hon. Leona Aglukkaq


						Aglukkaq.L at parl.gc.ca
Federal Ministrer of Industry Tony Clement


						Clement.T at parl.gc.ca
Ontario Minister of Health and Long Term Care, Deb Matthews, Ph.D. 
ccu.moh at ontario.ca

Thanks folks

Louisette


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