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Make sure the McGuinty government knows scientific criteria must be the cornerstone of these regulations.

Here’s what you can do:

  1. Send in the letter below online to Premier McGuinty and Minister Gerretsen.   It is easy.  Just complete the attached fields and push send. 

  2. Contact your Member of Provincial Parliament.  Email, phone numbers and office addresses can be found at: http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_current.do?locale=en

  3. Let department officials know what you think, too, by submitting comments through the Environmental Bill of Rights
    (The comment period ends December 22, 2008!)
    http://www.ebr.gov.on.ca/ERS-WEB-External/displaynoticecontent.do?noticeId=MTA0OTk2&statusId=MTU3MjYz&language=en

Write the Premier and express your concerns.

Dear Premier McGuinty,

Ontario’s draft regulations to ban the sale and use of some pesticides are seriously flawed. 

Like most Canadians, I expect the laws governing the products I can use to be based on sound scientific criteria.  Since these draft regulations fail to provide any such criteria I ask that you develop scientific criteria and resume consultations once there is criteria to review.

Ontarians need to know:

  • why a specific product can – or cannot - be used or sold in Ontario
  • what criteria are desirable in new products so that companies can develop new solutions to common pest problems
  • why our home landscapes – grass, trees, shrubs, flowers and vegetable gardens – are defined as cosmetic and not worthy of protection
  • how this government plans to keep the door for new product innovation in Ontario open

We are all safer with science-based regulations. 

Premier McGuinty, please get serious about the science!  Go back to the drawing board and define the scientific criteria your government will use to assess current products and future innovations so that Ontarians will have access to the safest and most effective tools to manage legitimate pest problems.

Sincerely,
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