Asbestos: Canada's ugly secret

            politicians are shaming us, say dozens of commenters on a june 2009 Melissa Fung CBC report about workers in India dying of asbestosis from Canadian government supported exports in this CBC video

            Russia and Canada are the main exporters to developing nations, making immoral profits from the export of a substance too hazardous to be used at home

            ban asbestos because asbestos kills, says an alliance of unions, environmental groups, and doctors ~ "an international epidemic of ill health and death is caused by exposure to asbestos"

            asbestolatry, a term coined by Bill Casselman and a town named asbestos, is the shame of Canada



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