Mr. Speaker, I would like to table a petition with literally thousands of names, Canadians right from Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador to Burnaby, British Columbia.
The petitioners remind the government that asbestos is the greatest industrial killer that the world has ever known, yet Canada continues to be one of the largest producers and exporters of asbestos in the world.
They call upon Canada to ban asbestos in all its forms, to institute a just transition program for asbestos workers in the communities in which they live, to end all government subsidies of asbestos in both Canada and abroad and to stop blocking international health and safety conventions designed to protect workers from asbestos, such as the Rotterdam convention.