Pesticide Free? Oui! — 2011 Progress Report: A Comparison of Provincial Cosmetic Pesticide Bans
Published by:
David Suzuki Foundation and partners
Authored by:
Nadine Bachand,
Lisa Gue
Partners:
Équiterre
ISBN:
978-1-897375-38-9
Biodiversity chemicals and toxins, commercial products, human health and wellbeing, Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Alberta, policy and regulation, pesticides, British Columbia
This report briefly presents the approaches adopted by the five Canadian provinces that currently restrict the use and sale of cosmetic pesticides: Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, as well as Alberta’s more limited restriction on pesticide/fertilizer mixtures. It also reviews the process to date in British Columbia and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the different provincial frameworks and highlights the best models, corresponding to the recommendations made in our 2008 report.
