Action! End Canada's Asbestion Export
Sign the urgent Appeal to the Canadian prime Minister
30.06.2009 |Kathleen Ruff
ACTION:
On July 1(or a nearby date), please sign the attached World Appeal to Canada and fax, email of hand deliver it to the Canadian embassy or consulate in your country.
Here is a website which gives information on the location of Canadian embassies:
http://www.international.gc.ca/ciw-cdm/embassies-ambassades..aspx?lang=eng
There will be demonstrations outside the Canadian embassy in Washington, DC, in Sydney, Australia and in Paris, France. If you would like more information about these demonstrations, or if you would be willing to demonstrate outside a Canadian embassy in your country, even if very briefly, or if you have any other questions, please email Kathleen Ruff (kruff@bulkely.net).
Embassy contact info for following countries:
1)France. Fax: (011-33-1) 44.43.29.99
2) Germany. Fax: (49 30) 20312-121; email brlin-pa@international.gc.ca
3) India. Fax: 91 (11) 4178-2020; email delhi@international.gc.ca
4) United Kingdom. Fax: (0207) 258-6476; email ldn.publicaffairs@international.gc.ca
5) U.S. Fax: (202) 682-7726
More information about the subject:
Article: 'Asbestos panelists accuse government of misusing science' by CMAJ, written 21 ocober 2008.
URGENT APPEAL
TO CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER
ON CANADA DAY, JULY 1, 2009
WHEREAS:
- Canada is the only western country exporting asbestos
- The science is irrefutable that chrysotile asbestos (the only form of asbestos still sold commercially) causes cancer and other deadly diseases
- Canada has virtually banned asbestos itself and exports 95% of its asbestos to developing countries
- Canada is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to remove asbestos from the Parliament Buildings and homes and schools across Canada
- In April this year your government gave yet another quarter of a million dollars to the Chrysotile Institute to promote asbestos in developing countries
- As shown in the recent CBC The National documentary Canada's Ugly Secret, Canada's asbestos is being used overseas under appallingly dangerous conditions
- A government of Quebec report shows a 100% failure rate to practise safety standards in the tiny numbers of industrial sites using asbestos in Quebec, showing that Canada’s “safe use” claim is a myth, even in an advanced, regulated, wealthy, technological society like Canada itself
- The World Health Organization, the International Labour Organization, the 160 million members of the International Trade Union Confederation in 155 countries, the World Bank and every independent scientific organization that has examined asbestos have all called for an end to the sale and use of asbestos as the only way to end the unnecessary tragedy of asbestos disease
- Bill C-399, tabled in the House of Commons on June 1, 2009, prohibits the commercial mining of any form of asbestos
WE THEREFORE CALL ON YOUR GOVERNMENT TO:
- END THE SHAME OF CANADA’S ASBESTOS EXPORT
- PUT PEOPLE’S LIVES AHEAD OF POLITICAL AMBITION
- CELEBRATE CANADA DAY BY SUPPORTING BILL C-399 TO BAN ASBESTOS
SIGNED:
NAME:
ORGANIZATION (if applicable):
ADDRESS:
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