Petition – Cell Towers
| Volume 147 | | | NUMBER 008 | | | 2nd SESSION | | | 41st PARLIAMENT |
OFFICIAL REPORT (HANSARD)
Friday, October 25, 2013
ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS – PETITIONS
Cell Towers
Mr. Frank Valeriote (Guelph, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, I rise today to table yet another petition on behalf of several hundred more constituents in Guelph with regard to their health concerns about cell towers.
The petitioners reference the World Health Organization, which has classified cell towers as a class 2B carcinogen. They also reference a National Research Council press report that cell towers should not be placed within 500 metres of residential properties, schools, hospitals, and day cares but should be at least 1000 metres away.
My constituents call on the Government of Canada to revise the Health Canada Safety Code 6 and enforce a moratorium on all new installations of cellular and wireless antennae and base stations until there are more studies. They also call for the immediate implementation of unbiased, non-industry-funded scientific research and ask the government to adopt the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health’s report, entitled “An Examination of the Potential Health Impacts of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Radiation”.
The indiscriminate installation of cell towers at just any location must stop now.
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