A prescription from health professionals: strengthen Canada’s toxics law

Amid the climate crisis, global plastic pollution, ubiquitous toxins, and environmental injustices, the Canadian Environmental Protection Act must evolve to protect the planet's health and people.

Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault, pictured on Nov. 3, 2020. Canada has outdated legislation inadequate to address current health, environmental, and social justice threats, write Jacqueline Avanthay Strus and Joe Vipond.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY JACQUELINE AVANTHAY STRUS AND JOE VIPOND

May 4, 2022

As physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals, we are alarmed about increasing fractures in the foundations of health and well-being, and the all too real impacts on people's health in Canada and across the globe. To practise good medicine, we must be proactive in this moment of inters...

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