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Environment, Climate Change, & Energy

Toxic substances platforms

Here's what the 2019 Canadian election parties are promising.
We don't have any Liberal policies on Toxic substances.
We don't have any Conservative policies on Toxic substances.
We don't have any NDP policies on Toxic substances.
We don't have any Bloc policies on Toxic substances.

Green

  • Strengthen CEPA.
  • Invoke the precautionary principle in making decisions about approvals of products, substances, projects, and processes with potential for irreversible harm.
  • Regulate microfibres as a toxic substance.
  • Ban all toxic ingredients in personal care products.

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Strengthen the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) to limit the approval and use of toxic chemicals that affect our health and environment.

Regulate microfibres as a toxic substance under CEPA.

Invoke the precautionary principle in making decisions about approvals of products, substances, projects and processes where there is the potential for irreversible harm. If there is no scientific proof of safety, then approval will be withheld.

Ban all toxic ingredients in personal care products.

From Election Platform 2019, retrieved 2019-09-22.

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We don't have any PPC policies on Toxic substances.

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