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stouffrille suntribune b saturday march 3 2007 7 ban pesticides provincewide survey says by serena w1lloughby staff writer threequarters of ontarians sup port a provincewide ban of lawn and garden pesticides says a poll com missioned by markham lobby group pesticide free ontario the group worked with canadi an physicians for the environment and hired oracle to do a random survey of 1000 ontario residents in january with a margin of error of about 31 per cent the group found 71 per cent support a ban pesticide free ontario is calling on the province to restrict lawn and garden pesticides every resident of ontario is enti tled to protection from these unnec essary poisons the groups spokesperson sari mersen said pesticide free ontario is a net work of 1 17 groups working with the canadian cancer society ontario college of family physicians and the canadian medical association it presented the findings to policy advisers in environment minister laurel brotens office monday while ms mersen was encour aged by the meeting the advisers admitted there was little chance of drafting provincewide legislation before the next provincial election in october this is not a political issue any more in addition to being harmful to human health pesticides are petroleum based products and increase the production of green house gases ms mersen said in discussions regarding munic ipal bylaws industry representa tives have repeatedly stated all chemicals in lawn pesticides have been approved by federal regula tors in york region markham new market georgina and vaughan have pesticide bylaws in the works but oak ridges conservative mpp frank klees says municipalities shouldnt have to struggle with the issue one by one he was surprised the amount of people who support a pesticide ban is not higher very few people want to take a risk with their lives or the lives of their children when it comes to pes ticides he said the poll also showed there was little correlation between what polit ical party the residents voted for and their view on pesticides when those polled were broken down by politi cal party support more than 60 per cent still supported a ban the canadian cancer society has called for controls on pesticides since it has found chemicals in most pesticides are known carcinogens in discussions regarding munic ipal bylaws industry representa tives have repeatedly stated all chemicals in lawn pesticides have been approved by federal regula tors for more information about pesticides go to wvmpesticidefreeca inserts for sat march 3 2007 eastwest tutoring south unionville community assoc star fruit vietnamese cuisine lemonville united church zehrs hakim bridle trail cleaners royalton furniture ida office depot markham subaru markham pharmacy shop save pharmasave no one delivers results like we do to find out more about how to reach your target market and get the same great response from your dyer distributions as- these customers call us today selected areas only 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