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Unfluoridate It!
Drinking water is fluoridated in Canada, the United States and Australia, but almost nowhere else in the world. Western Europe and Japan have almost no fluoridated water supplies. About 43 percent of Canadians live in communities with fluoridated tap water.
The Council of Canadians is opposed to the fluoridation of drinking water. We are concerned by the health and environmental impacts associated with it.
We are working with the Quebec-based group Eau Secours which is opposing the Charest government’s plans to increase the fluoridation of water there from about 3 per cent to 50 per cent. We also encourage Council of Canadians chapters across the country to promote local debate and move municipal resolutions in their community on this issue.
Blogs
The growing list of Canadian communities rejecting fluoride in their drinking water:
- Slave Lake, Alberta - September 12, 2011
- Taber, Alberta - July 20, 2011
- Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan - July 4, 2011
- Calgary, Alberta - February 8, 2011
- Vercheres, Quebec - February 7, 2011
- Waterloo, St. Jacobs, Elmira, Ontario - October 25, 2010
- Gatineau, Quebec - May 5, 2010
- Thunder Bay, Ontario - July 21, 2009
- Cranberry Portage, Manitoba - January 1, 2009
- Drayton Valley, Alberta - December 31, 2008
- Dryden, Ontario - April 2008
- Quebec City, Quebec - April 1, 2008
- Golden, British Columbia - November 19, 2005
- Burns Lake, British Columbia - June 25, 2003
- Dutton-Dunwich, Ontario - June 2003
- West Elgin, Ontario - June 2003
- Cobalt, Ontario - December 11, 2001
- Kamloops, British Columbia - October 13, 2001
- Whitehorse, Yukon - July 28, 1998
- Kitimat, British Columbia - March 1998
- Kelowna, British Columbia - November 16, 1996
- Campbell River, British Columbia - April 1993
- Port Hardy, British Columbia - November 1993
- Squamish, British Columbia - November 1993
- Comox-Courtenay, British Columbia - February 1992
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