The Tory government is increasing the levels of pesticides in our food products to match that of the US. Their excuse? To prevent any trade disputes with the US over the levels of pesticides.
All of this after last summer when Environmental Minister Rona Ambrose said that the government was going to reduce the levels of carcinogens and other harmful toxins from products we use everyday. Even this past December the Tories announced their new Chemicals Management Plan which aimed at regulating harmful chemicals. “The plan takes immediate action to regulate chemicals that are harmful to human health or the environment.”
This is where I begin to get confused…studies have shown that pesticides have been linked to neurological damage, cancers and leukemia (in children).
I guess that they have to make up for the reduction of harmful chemicals that their environment plan will (supposedly) take care of by introducing the chemicals back into us by other means. This government does not know what its priorities are; they claim one thing and act on the other. The contradictions of this government are starting to give me a headache…could it be cancer caused by pesticides? The government is sacrificing Canadians health to benefit trade…and they called Liberals ‘soft’ on the environment?
Links:
Vancouver Sun http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=c01d8141-839d-41cc-a8e1-2863bbc9ee36
Chemical Substances Website, Government of Canada http://www.chemicalsubstanceschimiques.gc.ca/communique_e.html
Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment http://www.cape.ca/toxics/pesticides.html
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