{"id":870,"date":"2010-11-04T15:21:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T19:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightoncanada.ca\/?p=870"},"modified":"2010-11-04T15:29:49","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T19:29:49","slug":"leading-health-experts-from-quebec-and-rest-of-canada-tell-harper-to-stop-funding-the-asbestos-lobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/?p=870","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Cancer Society challenges PM Harper to stop exporting asbestos."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter dated March 10, 2009, the Canadian Cancer Society challenged the Prime Minister to end his support for the exportation of asbestos.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Prime Minister Harper,<\/p>\n<p>I am writing to you today to express concern regarding our federal governments continued support of the asbestos industry in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Since the inception of the Chrysotile Institute, our Government has spent more than 19 million dollars towards its support. Disappointingly, this financial support continues to be reflected in this year&#8217;s federal budget.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Download full letter here\" href=\"https:\/\/central.bcwebinc.com\/~rightcan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Canadian-Cancer-Society-letter-to-PM-Harper-on-asbestos.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download full letter here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter dated March 10, 2009, the Canadian Cancer Society challenged the Prime Minister to end his support for the exportation of asbestos. Dear Prime Minister Harper, I am writing to you today to express concern regarding our federal governments continued support of the asbestos industry in Canada. Since the inception of the Chrysotile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","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=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}