Mr. Speaker, I know that members are well aware that asbestos is the greatest industrial killer that the world has ever known. In fact, more Canadians now die from asbestos than all other occupational causes combined, yet the current government insists there are still safe uses for asbestos and it refused to join the rest of the developed world to ban asbestos in all of its forms.
I want to ask the Minister of Labour, as a medical practitioner, as a physician, how, in all good conscience, does she defend her government's reprehensible policy on asbestos?