CELA Bulletin

64: 16-June-2008

Periodic E-News from the Canadian Environmental Law Association

Groups sound alarm about pesticide bill 

One of the broadest coalitions of health and environmental organizations ever created, today called upon the McGuinty government to correct flaws in Ontario's proposed pesticide legislation. Chief among the groups' concerns is the removal of municipal powers to establish local pesticide bylaws and the fact that the bill renders inoperative existing bylaws.

CELA, along with the Ontario College of Family Physicians, the David Suzuki Foundation, the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario, the Canadian Cancer Society, the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, and several additional organizations issued a media release today as Bill 64 goes to clause-by-clause review by the Standing Committee on Social Policy. View the media release and full details, on-line.

For more information:
Jill Scarrow, Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, Ph: 416-408-5604, jscarrow@rnao.org

Jan Kasperski, Chief Executive Officer, Ontario College of Family Physicians
Ph: 416-867-9646 ext. 27 jk_ocfp@cfpc.ca

Kathleen Cooper, Senior Researcher, Canadian Environmental Law Association
Ph: 705-324-1608 or cell 705-341-2488, kcooper@cela.ca

Gideon Forman, Executive Director, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
Ph: 416-306-2273 or 647-886-2189 (cell), Gideon@cape.ca