Canada exports asbestos...WTH?


	Canada exports asbestos...WTH?

gingembre

6-1-2008 3:24 PM

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canada, asbestos, health, ethics, politics, safety

gingembre says:

"Canada is the only developed nation still producing asbestos, called a deadly threat by the International Labour Organization, the World Health Organization, the International Association for Cancer Research and many more health agencies."

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6-1-2008 6:59 PM

Socratoad

Well you see gingembre, there is a good reason for that: Up here on the tundra we seem to be trying our very best to become a Hypocrisy. ( not to be confused with "Democracy").

6-2-2008 3:34 PM

tanyamm

Also, if Canada is selling it then there is some person or country out there stupid enough to buy it.

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