Federal government continues to ‘wrestle’ with asbestos issue: Strahl

Ottawa spends millions to remove asbestos from Parliament Buildings, but dumps 200,000 tonnes of it per year in Third World countries.

Federal Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl, who was diagnosed in 2005 with a rare and terminal form of lung cancer linked to asbestos exposure when he once worked in a road construction and logging business, says the federal government continues to "wrestle" with the ethical issues of Canada be...

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