Translation of "exposure to toxic waste non-occupational " (English → French) :

(Return tabled) Question No. 845 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With regard to children’s health and the environment: (a) what action has the government undertaken to integrate children’s environmental health into existing public health programs; (b) what specific action is the government undertaking to advocate for the consideration and assessment of hazardous environmental influences on children’s health and development, (i) in Canada, (ii) internationally; (c) what specific action is the government undertaking to raise the political profile of children’s environmental health, (i) locally, (ii) regionally, (iii) nationally; (d) in relation to i ...[+++]ts contaminated sites, (i) what specific action is the government undertaking to raise awareness about children’s environmental health, (ii) what are all contaminated sites where action has been taken to raise awareness, (iii) what was the risk; (iv) what was the action taken; (e) what are all government activities focused on children’s environmental health; (f) what are all existing government activities focused on prevention of environmental exposures aimed at protecting children's health; (g) what governmental action has been undertaken to prevent (i) pre-conception, prenatal, and childhood exposures, (ii) air, consumer products, food, soil/dust, water, and other physical environmental exposures, (iii) biological, chemical, and physical hazards; (h) how has the government taken children's vulnerabilities into account in developing environmental and health policies, regulations, and standards; (i) what targeted environmental and health policies, regulations, and standards have already been put in place to protect children's health, and what policies, regulations, and standards are currently under consideration; (j) what action is being undertaken by the government to measure the extent to which pregnant women and their babies are exposed to common environmental chemicals, and what health risks, if any, are associated with th ...

concerns for respiratory toxicity as a consequence of repeated inhalation exposure arising from all investigated occupational exposure scenarios.

In fact, this study that I have mentioned talks about how “the greatest risk of long-term exposure” to crystal meth and the toxic waste byproduct is assumed by “unsuspecting inhabitants of buildings formerly used by clandestine drug laboratory operators where residual contamination may exist inside and outside the structure”.

These included: allowing and conspiring with small-scale miners to illegally mine the ancestral domain and dump their toxic waste at Canatuan Creek for almost 10 years, from 1991 to 2001; allowing IP Subano children to work with the small-scale miners from 1991 to 2002; allowing IP Subanons to receive salaries way below the legally mandated minimum wage; and serving the cause of non-governmental organizations who work for the disunity and the deprivation of gainful employment of IP Subanons.

As the minister will know, there are 21 DEW line sites that have toxic and non-toxic waste that need to be cleaned up.

Municipal waste incinerators account for some 24 per cent and cement kilns burning hazardous waste account for 4.9 per cent. Research into dioxin exposure in Canada by researchers at Boston University's School of Public Health suggests there is no safe limit of exposure to these toxic chemicals.