and still is.
From reading this information you may realise that at one stage you have been exposed to asbestos.
Please let your doctor know of your exposure so he has it in his records
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We have tried logic, we have tried facts. We have liaised,
consulted and demonstrated until we were blue in the face.
Nothing seems capable of prising the asbestos baton
out of the cold dead hands of Quebec's industry of mass destruction.
Cuddly old Canada and proud Quebec don't give a rat's ass about the deaths they are exporting along with their shipments of chrysotile (white) asbestos..
public and occupational health professionals,
the province's asbestos stakeholders remain resolute
in their determination to prioritize 450 local jobs
over the lives of millions of vulnerable people.
matters more than the lives of Indians, Indonesians, Filipinos
and others in countries which import Canadian asbestos.
Anyway, the people in Mumbai, Jakarta and Manila
don't vote in the Canadian and Quebec elections
so who cares about them -
surely not Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper
or Quebec's Premier Jean Charest.
that it will provide a $58 million loan guarantee
for a new asbestos mine, subject to minor provisos,
signals a total and utter disregard for anyone
and anything other than the iconic industry
which is held in such high regard in Quebec.
.are partially historical and partially habit. It seems that asbestos = Quebec and that criticism of chrysotile asbestos, the only type of asbestos mined in Quebec, is interpreted as an attack on the bedrock of Quebec nationalism.
The entrepreneurs, industry lobbyists
and stakeholders in Quebec have to evolve..
They have to find new reasons
to get out of bed in the morning.
They have to let go of their asbestos
security blanket and move with the times.
Asbestos has been discredited;
in the end, the industry will not
save you.
If you are lucky it might not kill you
but
it will kill some of the mine workers
and many of the people in the
Canadian mining regions.
It will also kill people overseas;
for
them,
hazardous
exposures will be a matter of routine.
When they get ill,
there will be no
diagnosis,
no treatment and no cure -
just an excruciating and
predictable death.
Dear All-
The outrage we all feel regarding the news that the Quebec Govt. is likely to provide a $58 million loan guarantee so that work on the asbestos mine in Quebec can be finished has found an expression in a cartoon which has been produced by the ever-inventive Andy Vine.
The idea for this image originated with Barry Castleman. Discussions between myself and Rory O'Neil resulted in Hazards commissioning this image from Andy.
This cartoon is provided for use by campaigners, trade unionists and activists at no charge; should any magazines or publications wish to reproduce Andy's image they should contact him directly to enquire about the charge for reproduction; email : Andy Vine at andy@avine.co.uk
notice of what Laurie has to say, because the asbestos that leaves Canada and arrives at those other countries, may well be what eventually arrives in here New Zealand in those products containing asbestos.
The products that have no one regularly checking to see if they contain asbestos or not.
Because there is no law to say they have to be checked.
The same products that we know have been randomly tested privately and they do have asbestos in them
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