{"id":1125,"date":"2011-08-26T10:24:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T14:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightoncanada.ca\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2011-08-26T10:24:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T14:24:31","slug":"appeal-to-dr-kellie-leitch-to-care-about-children-overseas-two-photos-of-children-overseas-exposed-to-canadian-asbestos-harm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/?p=1125","title":{"rendered":"Appeal to Dr Kellie Leitch to care about children overseas. Two photos of children overseas exposed to Canadian asbestos harm."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Date: August 25, 2011<\/p>\n<p>To: Dr. Kellie Leitch, MD, MBA, FRCS (C), MP<\/p>\n<p>Dear Dr. Leach:<\/p>\n<p>Please would you take a look at the attached two photos. The first shows a child in India being exposed to extremely high levels of asbestos fibres, standing close to where a worker is cutting asbestos cement with a mechanical saw. Even the asbestos industry admits that this releases extraordinarily dangerous high levels of asbestos fibres that the worker and all those nearby, including the child, breathe in.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1127\" title=\"India, cutting asbestos-cement\" src=\"https:\/\/central.bcwebinc.com\/~rightcan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/India-cutting-asbestos-cement.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/India-cutting-asbestos-cement.jpg 500w, https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/India-cutting-asbestos-cement-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The second is a recent photo in Indonesia showing a child being exposed to harm from Canada\u2019s asbestos. LAB Chrysotile Inc, our last asbestos mine, supplies asbestos to the Djabesmen asbestos-cement factory in Indonesia. Broken pieces of asbestos cement and the asbestos bags are dumped outside the factory, where children, unaware of the threat to their health, re-use the bags and gather broken pieces of asbestos cement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1126\" title=\"Indonesia, Canada's asbestos\" src=\"https:\/\/central.bcwebinc.com\/~rightcan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Indonesia-Canadas-asbestos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Indonesia-Canadas-asbestos.jpg 500w, https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Indonesia-Canadas-asbestos-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Please, Dr. Leitch, can you tell me why you do not care about these children? Why do you not care about the harm that we are knowingly doing to them?<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to receiving your response.<\/p>\n<p>Kathleen Ruff<\/p>\n<p>Founder of RightOnCanada.ca, and senior human right advisor to the Rideau Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: August 25, 2011 To: Dr. Kellie Leitch, MD, MBA, FRCS (C), MP Dear Dr. Leach: Please would you take a look at the attached two photos. The first shows a child in India being exposed to extremely high levels of asbestos fibres, standing close to where a worker is cutting asbestos cement with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asbestos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/1132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}