Petitions have helped show public opposition for decades. But opposition has been ignored for generations.
🇨🇦 SIGN FEDERAL PETITION e-7586
Bill C-30 could give politicians greater power over pesticide decisions when economic interests are involved. Canada’s pesticide system already needs more independent scrutiny, not more political interference. 🎪 Chemical Forestry is proof of that.
This is not specifically a forestry petition, but it matters because of the Blame Circle ⭕️. Provinces point to Health Canada pesticide registrations to defend Chemical Forestry. Health Canada points back and says forestry decisions are provincial. Meanwhile, the spraying never ends.
Two-step process: After signing, open the confirmation email and click the link so your signature counts.
They sprayed Public Forests with 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T, components of Agent Orange, for roughly the first two decades, then switched to glyphosate around 1980. In 1999, a federal Senate report called for herbicides and chemical pesticides to be phased out of the boreal forest ASAP, but governments kept spraying because it was “cost-effective.” A widely cited 2000 “glyphosate safety” review, later exposed for Monsanto ghostwriting and undisclosed involvement, helped prop up claims of safety for 25 years before being officially retracted. Now the March 2026 Seattle Statement warns of serious health harms far beyond cancer, while IARC still classifies glyphosate as probably carcinogenic to humans. They are already protecting profit over people and the environment, killing naturally regenerating broadleaf trees, shrubs and food plants so industry can favour commercially valuable softwoods.
✅ End chemical herbicide spraying in public forests
✅ Protect drinking water, wildlife, and forest ecosystems
✅ Safeguard public health and Indigenous land rights
✅ Build healthier, more resilient forests better able to withstand wildfire
✅ Demand government accountability for allowing this practice to continue
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