Asbestos out

Recently I saw a documentary that focused on the fact that Canadian companies are still producing and selling asbestos, but not to Canadians no but to third world nations like India. I also heard that the Canadian Government also gives these companies twenty million dollars a year to basically slowly murder thousands of third world peoples around the world. Asbestosis is the leading killer in India today more than aids and cancer combined. These facts shocked and sickened me to the core. The most sickening fact though was that one of these companies named in the CBC doc used the twenty million dollars to defend itself against a French woman who sued the company(LAB Crysolite), yes they used the money to hire lawyers to counter sue the woman who was infected with asbestosis.

In the 1960's Asbestos was the new gold discovered, overnight companies sprung up like wild fires, about twenty years later though governments and especially doctors began raising alarm bells because of the harmfull elements involved in mining and producing asbestos as well as the harmfull dust that it produced in lungs called asbestosis, it killed hundreds of thousands of people in that time frame. By the late 1980's most governments in the western world had banned asbestos and had put it on the backburner as to discuss its possible elimination from the marketplace. Some twenty years after the ban though the killer asbestos is still taking lives today.

In India the people are looking for jobs any jobs especially in the slums where education is non existant and the people start working as young as eight just to feed their families. LAB Crysotile is one of those companies based just outside Quebec City that has been dolling out asbestos to poor Indians on Canadians tax money. Twenty million dollars a year goes to LAB Crysolite, and for me that means my hard earned money goes to murder innocent poor Indians. These people in the slums handle the asbestos with their hands with little or no protection to their hands or face. Like I said before more deaths in India that aids and cancer combined, deaths that are easilly preventable.

As a Canadian I am outraged at the fact that these people use Canadian workers, Canadian land and Canadian tax money to institute indirect murder. The consecutive Liberal and Conservative Governments have had twenty years to ban LAB Crysolite and hundreds of other such companies from doing business but have ignored the problem. Now I don't know if it's stupidity or just plain negligence on the part of the Government but this has to change. I'm calling right now to the end of the use of Canadian land for the purpose of murder by the asbestos industry. For those unions supporting this deadly industry if you really support workers rights you will immedietly stop suppoting LAB Crysolite and other such criminal enterprises.

Both the Government and these companies have had twenty years to stop this practise and it still continues, stop now or some action must be taken by the populace that you will not be able to stop. My only question is this,if it's not good for the Western world what makes it okay for the third world? Is racism or is something else laying underneath these criminal ventures.