To show that the Canadian government, the Government of Ontario, and other credible organizations agree that DDT, hexachlorobenzene, and other pesticides are carcinogens and cause other terrible illnesses, we have the following: a description from the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, a federal government agency, of the harmful effects of DDT and benzene, including the fact that they are carcinogens; an article quoting Johanne Gélinas, the federal environment commissioner, to the effect that pesticides have been lin ...[+++]ked to lung disease, reproductive problems, birth defects, cancers, developmental disorders, allergic reactions, lowered resistance to diseases, and other illnesses; an article from Ontario showing that Worker's Compensation and the occupational health clinics for Ontario agree that benzene, to which we were exposed, is a known carcinogen; a position paper for the Canadian Associationof Physicians for the Environment indicating the biological effects of DDT exposure; a recent release from the Ontario College of Family Physicians indicating that pesticides are too harmful to use in any form and that exposure to pesticides causes brain cancer, prostate cancer, kidney cancer, pancreatic cancer, and leukemia, among many other acute illnesses; and a list from OHIP that indicates the 53 different diseases and disorders with which I have been diagnosed in a seven-year period from 1987 to 1994 (1540) Further, to indicate that the Canadian army exposed troops to DDT, benzene hexacholoride, and other pesticides, I have the following: a copy of four pages from the Canadian Military Handbook of Army Health, issued in 1950, indicating that Canadian soldiers and their clothing should be sprayed with DDT and benzene hexacholoride, clearly indicating exposure; a letter from Paul Marsden, archivist for the military section of the government archives division, stating that DDT was used as a pesticide on soldiers while serving in Korea; a letter fro ...

(d) where a disease or condition has been considered within the framework of other Community activities on rare diseases, this information shall be provided.

(b) only products composed of substances mentioned in Annex I or listed in Annex II may be used as plant protection products, fertilisers, soil conditioners, feedingstuffs, feed materials, compound feedingstuffs, feed additives, substances used in animal nutrition under Directive 82/471/EEC, cleaning and disinfecting products for livestock buildings and installations, products for pest and disease control of livestock buildings and installations or for another purpose where such purpose is specified in Annex II in regard to certain products.

On six previous occasions in this place, I have tabled public bills enumerating the many ill effects of habitual smoking, particularly cancer of the lungs, cancer of the pancreas, cancer of the throat, cancer of the urinary bladder, as well as ischemic heart disease and other chronic chest diseases, which I believe are of epidemic proportions.

Honourable senators, testimony in committee demonstrated the absolute necessity to characterize the Tobacco Act as legislation pertaining to public health standards rather than just a few paragraphs or sections which represent a raw exercise of criminal powers relating to promotions and advertising, but which totally neglect the crux of the problem of tobacco in Canada, which is nicotine - that addictive substance; the high levels of nicotine in tobacco products, as well as another content, namely, the toxic and carcinogenic tars which cause the 21 clinical disease entities and cancer - that is, cancer of the lungs, the larynx and the pancreas.