Contamination

The federal government's attempts at protecting human and environmental health from PFAS and other toxics have been piecemeal, inadequate and delayed.

It will take all of us contacting our MPs to ask them to push for strengthened toxics regulations in CEPA to protect water, air, land, and our health. There are thousands of PFAS chemicals on the market that have not been tested for safety by the federal government. [linked to a range of adverse health outcomes](https://pfastoxdatabase.org/), including asthma, liver damage, immune suppression, thyroid disease and cancers. The chemical industry wants to increase production, although they already produce nearly 14 tons of chemicals per person, per year, in the U.S. Meanwhile, Canada announced draft PFAS “objectives” — which are weaker and do nothing to address the sources of this contamination, despite the discovery of these persistent chemicals in Quebec’s groundwater in 2021. PFAS joins a long list of pollutants, from pesticides to plastic, that have exceeded our planet’s ability to absorb any more harm.