Even though asbestos is banned in over 50 countries, Canada continues blocking international action to control its use, financially supporting asbestos industry spin doctors and promoting the continued trade of this toxic cancer-causing substance to the developing world despite it being effectively banned in Canada.
Managing editor David Donovan reports on a nation that has become an international pariah through what some have described as its “racist” double-standards.
The full text is available here:
http://www.independentaustralia.net/2012/business/how-canada-exports-death-and-disease-to-the-developing-world/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-canada-exports-death-and-disease-to-the-developing-world
IndependentAustralia.net
9 April, 2012
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