not to rebut your point but rather than reinforce it: the Canadian asbestos industry fought tooth and nail with increasingly dirty tactics¹ to continue mining & selling asbestos from and to markets with weaker health regulations and vulnerability to Canada's reputation for prizing science and health care until a decades-long fight² finally banned the industry... *in 2018*.
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¹: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5664636/
²: https://www.asbestos.com/news/2018/10/22/canada-asbestos-ban-exemptions/
³: https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/news/2018/10/the-government-of-canada-takes-measures-to-ban-asbestos-and-asbestoscontaining-products.html
Ben Zanin
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2025-12-04 01:25:56 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…tuta
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