Stop the Spray Canada is a national campaign working to end the non-essential use of chemical herbicides in public forests across Canada.
For 70 years, chemical herbicides have been sprayed over public forests across Canada without public consent. What began as a forestry practice has become a public-health, environmental, and Indigenous-rights issue with long-term consequences for people, wildlife, and water.
Communities across Canada, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, have opposed forest herbicide spraying for generations. Governments have avoided accountability by passing responsibility back and forth, with provinces pointing to federal pesticide approvals and the federal government pointing to provincial control over forestry.
Evidence continues to confirm what communities have long known. Repeated chemical exposure harms ecosystems and human health. Key scientific studies used to support glyphosate’s safety have now been retracted, raising serious questions about the credibility of continued approvals. With proven alternatives already in place, most notably Québec’s decision to end herbicide use in forestry in 2001, continuing to defend and carry out forest herbicide spraying is no longer defensible and would be irresponsible.
🌲 EVERY ACTION COUNTS
Whether you send an email, sign a petition, organize locally, help spread awareness, or support the campaign, you are part of a growing movement protecting forests, waterways, wildlife, and communities.
Ontario Action
(Email your MPP, municipal tools, Ombudsman, resolutions)
Provincial Action
(Find actions in provinces across Canada)
Federal Action
(Email your MP, national petition, federal accountability)
Governments speak of reconciliation and fund Indigenous stewardship, while herbicide spraying continues on Indigenous territories without consent. Indigenous Nations have repeatedly and formally opposed this practice for decades, exposing a profound gap between government rhetoric and reality.
Indigenous Leadership Has Opposed Forest Herbicide Spraying for Decades. View formal Indigenous Nations resolutions opposing forest herbicide spraying → stopthespraycanada.ca/resolutions
