{"id":713,"date":"2011-06-29T20:28:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T00:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/?p=713"},"modified":"2023-10-07T11:34:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T15:34:30","slug":"green-party-apologizes-for-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/2011\/06\/green-party-apologizes-for-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Party Apologizes for Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, June 24, the Conservative government once again embarrassed our country on the international stage. We alone prevented the United Nations from adding chrysotile asbestos to the global list of hazardous substances.<\/p>\n

We won\u2019t allow asbestos in our homes and offices. We are spending millions to remove it from our Parliament buildings. Here in Canada, we know<\/em> asbestos is hazardous. Yet year after year our government refuses to let the world officially recognize it as hazardous, because they want to continue to export it to developing countries without even a warning label.<\/p>\n

Our government has behaved shamefully on this issue, and when you behave badly there\u2019s only one thing to do: apologize. Since Stephen Harper clearly won\u2019t, the Green Party is apologizing to the rest of the world for our country\u2019s disgraceful position on asbestos. We invite all Canadians to join us in saying \u201cWe\u2019re sorry!\u201d<\/p>\n

Post a message of apology on our asbestos Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Send your own email of apology to imsorry@greenparty.ca<\/a> and we\u2019ll forward them to the General Secretary of the United Nations.<\/p>\n

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On Friday, June 24, the Conservative government once again embarrassed our country on the international stage. We alone prevented the United Nations from adding chrysotile asbestos to the global list of hazardous substances. We won\u2019t allow asbestos in our homes and offices. We are spending millions to remove it from our Parliament buildings. Here in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[178,383],"tags":[294,293,295,296],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}