Leading health experts from Quebec and rest of Canada tell Harper to stop funding the asbestos lobby

Thu, Nov 4, 2010

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In a letter to Prime Minister Harper, leading health experts from Quebec and rest of Canada urged him to stop funding the asbestos lobby

Dear Prime Minister Harper,

We are profoundly disturbed that your government plans to continue to fund the Chrysotile Institute in the new federal budget. It is our view as Canadian experts in epidemiology and occupational medicine and as public health advocates that the Chrysotile Institute is endangering public health by disseminating misleading and untruthful information about chrysotile asbestos, especially in the world’s emerging economies.

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