Ontario Pesticide Ban - Pick Your Favorite Card--Send your Message to the Premie

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Hey Everybody,

There is no reason why you can not send in a card if you don't live in

Ontario. It is nice to let the government know the world's eyes are upon them

Take care everybody and please keep safe.

deborah

by the way I am back so I will begin answering calls and emails, give me

some time please

 

 

 

 

 

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Deadline Feb 17th, 2008

 

Pick Your Favorite Card--Send your Message to the Premier

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We're very close to a major victory:

Ontario is developing a law to ban the cosmetic use of pesticides.

Show your romantic side--and your support for a strong law.

Send a pesticide-free, zero-emission bouquet and card to Premier McGuinty.

* the flowers are zero-emission because they are virtual. No real flowers

will be sent.

 

 

 

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Pick Your Favorite Card--Send your Message to the Premier

 

 

 

Dalton Jr, Please be mine,

My no-pesticide lawn is just fine

Not for use and NOT FOR SALE

To kill slugs in my garden,

I'll put beer in a pail

 

 

I support a province-wide ban on the use and sale of lawn and garden

pesticides.

 

 

 

Roses are Red

Violets are Blue

Pesticides kill wee creatures

And make humans sick too

 

 

 

Cosmetic pesticides are toxic and unnecessary! Please ban both the sale and

use of them in Ontario.

 

 

 

Roses are Red

Violets are Blue

If Quebec can do it

Ontario can too

 

 

 

Quebec has banned the sale of many pesticides. Ontario can do the same!

 

 

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Ontario should ban the use AND SALE of lawn and garden pesticides.

Tell Premier McGuinty that love cannot wait - the law should be in place

this year!

 

Don't snooze: the chemical industry is wooing him too.

 

Share the love: _send this to a friend_

(http://www.davidsuzuki.org/health/food/sharevalentine.asp) .

 

 

Join the David Suzuki Foundation in calling for a law that:

 

• Bans the SALE of lawn and garden pesticides, as well as their use,

province-wide;

• Allows exemptions only to protect public health;

• Is passed into law this year.

 

 

_Submit comments online through the Environmental Registry _

(http://www.ebr.gov.on.ca/ERS-WEB-External/searchComment.do?actionType=add & notic\

eId=MTAyNTUz & s

tatusId=MTUzMzE3 & noticeHeaderIdString=MTAyNTUz) --deadline for comments

February 17, 2008.

 

 

(http://www.davidsuzuki.orgSWAG/Health/OntarioPesticideBan.pdf)

_Click here _

(http://www.davidsuzuki.orgSWAG/Health/Pesticide_Ontario_Comments.pdf)

for the David Suzuki Foundation's submission to the registry.

 

 

Background

The Ontario government has pledged to introduce a law this spring to “ban

the cosmetic use of pesticides.†Lawn and garden pesticides pose needless

risks

to human health and the environment.

 

_Thirty-six Ontario municipalities _

(http://www.pesticidereform.ca/canadianpesticidebylaws.htm) have already

adopted bylaws to restrict the use of lawn

and garden pesticides, paving the way for a province-wide ban. Where

municipal bylaws are already in force, provincial legislation can add value by

banning the sale as well as use of cosmetic pesticides.

 

Provincial Pesticide Bans Work!

Quebec is currently the only province to restrict cosmetic pesticide sales.

Statistics Canada found that the number of households using pesticides in

that province decreased by 50% between 1994 and 2005. Nationwide, pesticide use

dipped by only 2 percentage points over the same period. _Click here _

(http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/070926/d070926b.htm) for summary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More info:

 

 

 

_Background information _ (http://www.ebr.gov.on.ca/ERS-

WEB-External/displaynoticecontent.do?noticeId=MTAyNTUz & statusId=MTUzMzE3 & languag\

e=en)

posted on the Environmental Registry.

 

_Joint statement of 15 health and environmental organizations _

(http://www.davidsuzuki.orgSWAG/Health/OntarioPesticideBan.pdf) in

support of

Ontario-wide ban.

 

_Northern Exposure: Acute Pesticide Poisonings in Canada. _

(http://www.davidsuzuki.org/Publications/Northern_exposure.asp) This study

published by the

David Suzuki Foundation reports 1600 cases of acute pesticide poisoning in

Ontario in a year, more than half involving children under the age of six.

_

Pesticide Literature Review _

(http://www.ocfp.on.ca/localCommunications/Current%20Issues/Pesticides/Fi\

nal%20Paper%2023APR2004.pdf) by the Ontario

College of Family Physicians: a systematic review of human health effects

associated with chronic pesticide exposure.

 

 

 

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