This website collects examples of leading national and international scientific and popular opinions calling on the Canadian government to stop the mining and export of Canadian chrysotile asbestos to unprotected developing nations.
In every stage of its life cycle, asbestos promiscuously sheds tiny dust fibers. Once inhaled, the fibres become tangled in lung tissues, where they wreak a cancerous havoc - typically lung cancer, asbestosis and mesothelioma, the latter a rare, painful and terminal cancer of the lining of the chest wall.
The World Health Organization estimates that asbestos kills at least 90,000 people a year - about half of all occupational cancer deaths. Strict occupational health and safety rules in Canada protect Canadian workers’ exposure to the mineral. The federal government spends millions to rid Parliament, under the strictest protective guidelines, of its remaining asbestos. In the summer of 2009, the Canadian Medical Association voted 95% to stop Canadian mining and export of asbestos.
However, the Canadian government continues to see nothing wrong with the continued mining and export of deadly Canadian asbestos to unprotected developing nations.
However, the Canadian government continues to see nothing wrong with the continued mining and export of deadly Canadian asbestos to unprotected developing nations.
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