By exporting asbestos, a carcinogen, to developing countries despite its well-known health risks, Canada does not only export harm to the environment and health, but is also establishing a dangerous precedent that may cause a major setback to an effective international environmental convention. In the April 21, 2009 edition of the Ottawa Citizen, Kathleen Ruff writes that “Canada’s willingness to peddle asbestos to the world’s most vulnerable populations, all for the sake of a few dollars in Quebec, is a long-standing disgrace.”
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Thu, Apr 23, 2009
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