<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Emailed this to the PM and others. Feel free to relay the info to anyone who might be interested in this. I've notified folks at CCOB seeing that this may be one of the chemicals that ends up concentrated in the quarry pit pools with aggregate rinses. <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Lulu<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> ----- Forwarded
Message -----<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Louisette Lanteigne <butterflybluelu@rogers.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "stephen.harper@parl.gc.ca" <stephen.harper@parl.gc.ca>; "thomas.mulcair@parl.gc.ca" <thomas.mulcair@parl.gc.ca>; "bob.rae@parl.gc.ca" <bob.rae@parl.gc.ca>; "Elizabeth.May@parl.gc.ca" <Elizabeth.May@parl.gc.ca>; "stephane.dion@parl.gc.ca" <stephane.dion@parl.gc.ca>; "gerry.ritz@parl.gc.ca" <gerry.ritz@parl.gc.ca>; "Joe.Oliver@parl.gc.ca" <Joe.Oliver@parl.gc.ca>; "peter.braid@parl.gc.ca" <peter.braid@parl.gc.ca>; Peter Kent P.C. M.P. <minister@ec.gc.ca>; "Leona.Aglukkaq@parl.gc.ca" <Leona.Aglukkaq@parl.gc.ca>; "kwynne.mpp@liberal.ola.org" <kwynne.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "dmatthews.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org" <dmatthews.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org>; "tabunsp-qp@ndp.on.ca" <tabunsp-qp@ndp.on.ca>;
"cfife-co@ndp.on.ca" <cfife-co@ndp.on.ca>; "francis.scarpaleggia@parl.gc.ca" <francis.scarpaleggia@parl.gc.ca> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, March 22, 2013 11:18:16 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Alarming data re: The toxicity of a widely used pesticide<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv1741049468"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;">Dear Hon. Prime Ministers and Ministers<br></span><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div id="yiv1741049468"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new
york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div id="yiv1741049468"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><br></span><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div id="yiv1741049468"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><div><span style="font-size:medium;">A newly published report charges that US EPA ignored staff warnings, approved widespread use of dangerous pesticide that threatens birds, bees, and aquatic life.This regards impacts from the world’s most widely used
class of insecticides, nicotine-like chemicals called neonicotinoids, The
American Bird Conservancy (ABC) has called for a ban on their use as
seed treatments and for the suspension of all applications pending an
independent review of the products’ effects on birds, terrestrial and
aquatic invertebrates, and other wildlife.
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“It is clear that these chemicals have the potential to affect entire food chains." <br><br>“A single corn kernel coated with a neonicotinoid can kill a songbird,”
Palmer said. “Even a tiny grain of wheat or canola treated with the
oldest neonicotinoid -- called imidacloprid -- can fatally poison a
bird. And as little as 1/10th of a neonicotinoid-coated corn seed per
day during egg-laying season is all that is needed to affect
reproduction.”<br><br>Here is a link to a news article about this: <br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/releases/130319.html">http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/releases/130319.html</a><br><br></span><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Here is the link to this 100 page report: <br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.abcbirds.org/abcprograms/policy/toxins/Neonic_FINAL.pdf">http://www.abcbirds.org/abcprograms/policy/toxins/Neonic_FINAL.pdf</a><br><br>In January 2013, the European Food Safety Authority
stated that neonicotinoids pose an unacceptably high risk to bees, and
that the industry-sponsored science upon which regulatory agencies'
claims of safety have relied may be flawed, concluding that, "A high
acute risk to honey bees was identified from exposure via dust drift for
the seed treatment uses in maize, oilseed rape and cereals. A high
acute risk was also identified from exposure via residues in nectar
and/or pollen.<sup>"</sup><br><sup id="yiv1741049468cite_ref-EFSA_6-0" class="yiv1741049468reference">Here is the link to that report. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/doc/3066.pdf">http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/doc/3066.pdf</a><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonicotinoid#cite_note-EFSA-6"><span></span><span></span></a></sup> An author of a <i>Science</i>
study prompting the EESA review suggested that industry science
pertaining to neonicotinoids may have been deliberately deceptive, and
the UK Parliament has asked manufacturer Bayer Cropscience to explain discrepancies in evidence they have submitted to an investigation.<br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/16/insecticide-unacceptable-danger-bees">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/16/insecticide-unacceptable-danger-bees</a><br><br>I would like to request that our government review this matter in order to assess what the appropriate course of action should be in order to protect our crops, public health, ecology and water supplies. <br><br>Waterloo Region is the second largest food belt in Ontario and 90% of our municipal water is from a groundwater supply with recharge under farmlands. I believe our area may be a good location to do some studies on this issue to see how much is getting into our wells and tributaries. <br><br>Thank you kindly for your time.<br><br>Louisette Lanteigne<br>700 Star Flower Ave.<br>Waterloo
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