Where asbestos kills and the feds won’t help

For the Trudeau government and its 'ban' on asbestos in Canada, it is still okay to dig up millions of tons of asbestos tailings that will emit billions of toxic fibres into the air.
The Jeffrey Mine in Asbestos, Que., is now closed. The federal government's new asbestos ban regulations will not prevent companies from going through the waste of mining asbestos to look for magnesium.
We should all know this: asbestos fibres in your lungs will make you sick and may kill you. Asbestos inhalation causes life-threatening diseases, such as asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma, and almost always prom...

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