Kathleen Ruff, RightOnCanada.ca, March 20, 2018
RightOnCanada has called on the the Canadian government to make a formal apology to asbestos victims in Canada and overseas for having concealed for decades the hazardousness of asbestos and promoted its use.
The Canadian government is holding consultations with Canadian organisations and businesses until March 22 to get their comments on the government’s proposed regulations to ban asbestos and asbestos-containing products.
In its submission, RightOnCanada asks the government to set up a national fund to compensate victims of asbestos, include asbestos mining wastes under its regulations, as recommended by all 18 Quebec Directors of Public Health, and set up a National Asbestos panel to develop and implement a national strategy to protect Canadians from asbestos harm. It calls on the government to practice transparency and to create whistle-blower protection.
It asks the Canadian government to clearly prohibit the export of any asbestos or any asbestos-containing product.
Read the full submission here
Wed, Mar 21, 2018
Asbestos