Tell your MP to challenge the federal approval shield, heed Canada’s 1999 warning, and oppose replacing one forestry herbicide with another.
Forestry is provincial. Pesticide approval is federal. That is the blame circle.
Provinces approve forest spraying, then hide behind Health Canada’s pesticide approvals. Health Canada approves the chemicals, then points back to the provinces. Meanwhile, public forests, watersheds, wildlife, Indigenous lands, workers, and communities keep being exposed.
This Canada-wide action emails your federal MP and copies Health Canada’s pesticide regulator and the federal Minister of Health because federal approval is being used as the shield for provincial spraying.
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Dear Member of Parliament,
After 70 years of cumulative chemical exposure in Canada’s forests, watersheds, wildlife habitat, food and medicine plants, Indigenous lands, workers and nearby communities, the federal government can no longer treat forestry herbicide use as someone else’s responsibility.
Forestry is provincial, but pesticide approval is federal. Provinces approve forest spraying and point to Health Canada’s registrations. Health Canada registers the chemicals and points back to the provinces. Everyone passes responsibility while Chemical Forestry continues.
Canada was warned in 1999, when a federal Senate committee recommended that herbicide and chemical pesticide use in the boreal forest be phased out as soon as possible. Quebec ended chemical herbicide spraying in its public forests in 2001. Other provinces continued.
Health Canada’s 2017 glyphosate re-registration is still under legal challenge and must not be treated as the final word. Since then, a major Monsanto-linked glyphosate “safety” review was retracted, and the 2026 Seattle Statement on Glyphosate and Public Health raised serious health concerns beyond cancer. Federal pesticide approvals must be reconsidered using current science, not defended with outdated assurances.
This is not only about glyphosate. Replacing it with triclopyr, imazapyr or another herbicide simply keeps Chemical Forestry alive under another name. Public forests do not need a new chemical. They need a permanent transition to non-chemical forest management.
As my elected representative, I am asking you one direct question:
WILL YOU CALL ON THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO HEED CANADA’S 1999 WARNING, URGENTLY REASSESS THE PESTICIDE APPROVALS USED TO SUPPORT FOREST SPRAYING, AND STOP HEALTH CANADA REGISTRATIONS FROM BEING USED AS A SHIELD FOR CHEMICAL FORESTRY?
Please do not reply that forestry is solely provincial. Federal pesticide approvals are repeatedly used to justify provincial spraying, which makes federal accountability essential.
I would appreciate a clear written answer.
Sincerely,
A copy of this email will be BCC’d to Stop the Spray Canada so we can count how many emails are sent through this action page. Your email will still open in your own email program, and you can review or remove the BCC before sending.
The “NEXT” button opens your email app. If it does not work, your device may not have email set up. Please copy the letter and send it manually. Find your MP’s email address and cc: pesticides-info@hc-sc.gc.ca; hcminister.ministresc@hc-sc.gc.ca; supporters@stopthespraycanada.ca
Glyphosate can no longer be defended, so governments and industry are trying to carry on chemical forestry under different names.
Triclopyr. Imazapyr. Different chemicals. Same purpose. Same lack of consent. This is not modernization. This is not precaution. This is not ethical forestry.
