The Coalition for a Healthy Ottawa

Who Supports Municipal Pesticide By-laws?  

Some of the Organizations calling for Municipal Pesticide By-laws include:

• Allergy and Environmental Health Association
• Allergy Asthma Information Association
• Association of Early Childhood Educators, Ontario
• Board of Trustees, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario
• Breast Cancer Prevention Coalition
• Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
• Canadian Cancer Society
• Canadian Environmental Law Association
• Canadian Federation of University Women
• Canadian Institute of Child Health
• Canadian Labour Congress
• Canadian Liver Foundation
• Canadian Nurses Association
• Canadian Pediatric Society -- former President Dr. Robin Walker
• Canadian Physiotherapy Association
• Canadian Public Health Association
• Canadian Society for Environmental Medicine
• Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
• Great Lakes United
• Health Action Network Society
• Humane Society of Canada
• International Institute of Concern for Public Health
• Learning Disabilities Association of Canada
• The Learning Disabilities Association of Niagara
• The Lung Association of Nova Scotia
• Medical Officers of Health:

• Dr. Sheila Basrur, Chief Medical Officer of Health
• Dr. Alban Goddard-Hill, Former Acting Medical Officer of Health, Hastings & P.E. Counties
• Dr. Robert Cushman, Former M.O.H., Ottawa
• Dr. Robert Strang, M.O.H., Nova Scotia, Central Region
• Dr. Barbara Yaffe, Acting M.O.H.,  Toronto
• Michael O'Sullivan, Executive Director of the Humane Society of Canada

• New Brunswick Lung Association
• Newfoundland & Labrador Medical Association
• Nova Scotia Canadian Institute for the Blind
• Nova Scotia College of Family Physicians
• Nova Scotia Government Employees Union
• Ontario College of Family Physicians
• Ontario Nature
• Ontario Public Health Association
• Ottawa and District Labour Council
• Pesticide Exposure Group of Sufferers
• Pesticide Free Ontario
• Physicians from CHEO
• Prince Edward County Federation of Naturalists
• Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
• Dr. Rob Rutledge, oncologist at the QE II Medical Centre (Halifax area)
• Sierra Club of Canada
• Toronto Board of Health
• Toronto Environmental Alliance
• United Steel Workers of America
• Dr. Vance L. Trudeau, Associate -- Professor of Biology, University of Ottawa
• Women’s Healthy Environments Network
• World Wildlife Fund
  

Close to home, the list of Ottawa doctors who support the call by the Coalition for a Healthy Ottawa for a by-law includes:

• the CHEO heads of Pediatrics, Neonatology, and Endocrinology
• the director of the CHEO Research Institute  
• the CHEO Board of Trustees
• the chair of the Canadian Leukemia Studies Group
• the Director of Epidemiology at Chalmers’ Research Institute
• the head of the in vitro / fertility clinic at the Civic Hospital (now Ottawa Hospital)
• the head of the Rehabilitation Centre
• several environmental medical specialists
• numerous doctors and scientists at the University of Ottawa.

For a list of municipalities that have implemented pesticide bylaws, please click here.

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