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Climate Change & the Environment

Pesticides platforms

Here's what the 2021 Canadian election parties are promising.

Liberal

  • Strengthen the Pest Control Products Act.
  • Invest in further government & independent science, including water & soil monitoring & on the cumulative effects of multiple pesticides on health & the environment.
  • Ensure the impacts on wildlife are fully considered.
  • Support food producers who choose alternative pest management approaches that reduce the need for chemical pesticides.

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Strengthen the Pest Control Products Act to better protect our health, wildlife, and the environment.

Align with world-leading approaches to transparency when reassessing pesticides already on the market and increase opportunities for independent scientists to have input into the decision-making process.

Invest in further government and independent science, including on water and soil monitoring and on the cumulative effects of multiple pesticides on health and the environment.

Ensure that the impacts of pesticides on wildlife are fully considered, and support food producers who choose alternative pest management approaches that reduce the need for chemical pesticides.

Forward. For Everyone., retrieved 2021-09-02

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We don't have any Conservative policies on Pesticides.
We don't have any Bloc policies on Pesticides.
We don't have any NDP policies on Pesticides.

Green

  • Set targets for reducing the use of pesticides in agriculture.
  • Assist farmers in moving to organic & regenerative farming.
  • Revive & expand the National Pesticides Monitoring & Surveillance Network.
  • Create an adverse effects reporting database for doctors & emergency rooms to track health impacts of pesticides & other chemicals.
  • Ban neonicotinoid pesticides.

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