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Ottawa veut pouvoir réautoriser des pesticides interdits
Avec le projet de loi C-30, le gouvernement de Mark Carney pourra invalider des décisions basées sur la science de Santé Canada au sujet des pesticides.
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Radio Canada reports that the federal government wants to be able to reauthorize banned pesticides
With Bill C-30, Mark Carney’s government will be able to invalidate Health Canada’s science-based decisions on pesticides
Ottawa wants to be able to reauthorize banned pesticides, With Bill C-30, the Carney government will be able to overturn science-based decisions by Thomas Gerbet, June 8, 2026, Radio Canada
Premier Mark Carney wants Bill C-30 to pass by June 19. (Photo of archives)
Scientists from 13 Canadian universities are calling on the Liberal government to abandon certain sections of Bill C-30 that were studied in the House of Commons on Monday. This reform will give the Council of Ministers the power to invalidate Health Canada’s decisions and re-authorize pesticides
The Carney government, which has increased meetings with the pesticide lobby in recent months, justifies this reform with food security
and economic security
imperatives, without defining these concepts.
The Liberals would like to pass Bill C-30 before the end of the parliamentary session on June 19.
Anti-science bill, according to researchers
According to the 21 academics who signed the Memory (new window), the proposed change would compromise the scientific integrity of pesticide regulation in Canada by potentially disregarding this evidence, even when the harmful effects are manifest
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There is no scientific basis or other reasonable grounds for any regulatory decision to be overturned by the Council of Ministers after Health Canada has conducted extensive reviews. A quote from Excerpt from the dissertation submitted by the 21 academics
Researchers from 13 universities
The signatories are researchers from universities in Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and British Columbia. Among them are Sébastien Sauvé, from the Université de Montréal, and Maryse Bouchard from the National Institute of Scientific Research. AILLEURS SUR INFO : Le gala de l’UFC à la Maison-Blanche contesté devant les tribunaux
The Minister and the lobbyists
On the day of the bill’s introduction on April 29, the Minister of Health delivered a speech at an event hosted by CropLife, the lobby that advocates for seed, pesticide, fertilizer and fertilizer companies.
So fucking Nazi of her.
Marjorie Michel boasted the next day, to be the First Canadian Minister of Health to attend a CropLife event. (new window)JFC! Carney is turning every Canadian politician into monsters like him.
Health Minister Marjorie Michel at a CropLife lobby event on April 29, 2026. Photo : Greg Kolz/Marjorie Michel’s Facebook page
Our farmers are facing climate change, extreme weather events, infestations… Rethinking its licensing processes, Health Canada has become a preferred partner for farmers.A quote from Excerpt from the speech of the Federal Minister of Health, Marjorie Michel, April 29, 2026
The Minister of Health was not available to answer questions from Radio-Canada. Last month, however, she responded to the invitation of the website RealAgriculture, which relays the speech of the lobbies.
In the interview, Marjorie Michel said she was doing “everything in her power to support the sector and help her move in the right direction.”
Multiple encounters between CropLife and Health Canada
According to the Registry of Canadian Lobbyists, Minister Marjorie Michel also met with CropLife on January 15. His political adviser, Roy Karam, has met with them five times since March and Assistant Deputy Minister Matt Jones twice in February.Fucking unacceptable!
The CropLife lobby has about fifty members, including Bayer, Syngenta, BASF, Corteva, Cargill and Sollio Agriculture (ex-Federated Co-op). Photo : CropLife Canada
The minister’s office says the reform was not requested by CropLife.
For its part, the lobby responds by email to Radio-Canada that these elements of the bill will not provide it with any concrete advantage
.We’re not stupid, you vile poison-spewing Nazis
However, on April 15, in a statement, CropLife was pleased to see the government open to taking economic considerations into account within the mandate of the Pesticide Regulatory Directorate
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It is critical that Canadian farmers have timely access to the tools they need to protect local food production and support food security, while enabling them to compete globally.A quote from Erin O’Hara, spokesperson for CropLife, in an email response to Radio-Canada, June 5
In 2023, a Radio-Canada investigation revealed that the agrochemical lobby had co-piloted regulatory changes to Health Canada behind closed doors. CropLife had even defined concepts with public servants and developed communication strategies.
Il y aura des balises, assure Ottawa
Le cabinet de la ministre Marjorie Michel assure que les concepts de sécurité alimentaire
et de sécurité économique
seront définis avec des parties prenantes
, sans préciser quels groupes.
Le travail concernant les définitions ainsi que le développement des règlements débuteront à la suite de l’adoption du projet de loi
, explique par courriel le porte-parole de la ministre, Guillaume Bertrand.
Ces pouvoirs ne doivent être exercés que dans des circonstances exceptionnelles et ne sont pas pris à la légère.A quote from Guillaume Bertrand, spokesperson for the Federal Minister of Health
The success of the harvest is essential to feed Canadian families and is the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of families across the country
, says the minister’s office.None of which hangs on spewing banned toxic chemicals or glyphosate or killed listed species via poisoning ground squirrels with strychnine.
Ottawa assures that the procedure will be transparent: the government will have to clearly explain its decision and justify the need for the measures taken
.I’ve only read and heard Carney lie, most of his Nazi ministers too, copying their lying con man boss, lying lying and lying to us every fucking day.
The Bloc Québécois will oppose
The primary mission of the Minister of Health is to protect public health, not economic interests
, reacts the Bloc Québécois spokesperson on Health, Maxime Blanchette-Joncas.Bravo. Merci.
Maxime Blanchette-Joncas, Member of Parliament for the Bloc Québécois. (Photo of archives). Photo : Radio-Canada
The member denounces an omnibus bill, catch-all, that we are tried to sink into the throat, before the summer.
We don’t have time to debate it, we don’t have time to discuss it
, he laments. We were not even able to invite expert witnesses.
Of course not, Herr Nazi Carney knows the experts would all say “NO! Don’t do this murderous insanity!”
Of NGO in Ottawa Monday
Several organizations opposed to Bill C-30 will be on Parliament Hill on Monday to be heard.
Last week, 25 NGO for the defence of health and the environment, wrote to the members of the Finance Committee opposing these amendments that they consider Unjustified
and Anti-democratic
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These measures are supposedly intended to address food safety concerns, but less stringent pesticide regulation could threaten national food security in the long term.A quote from Excerpt from the letter of 25 NGOs
Examples of NGOs opposing the bill:
Quebec Breast Cancer Action, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, Centre québécois du droit de l’environnement, Fondation David Suzuki, Équiterre, Vigilance GMO, Association pour la santé publique du Québec, Victims of Quebec pesticides, etc.
A risk to trade with Europe?
According to opponents of the bill, the proposed amendments could complicate Canada’s efforts to harmonize its pesticide regulations with that of its international partners, including the European Union.
As Canada strives to diversify its trade relations and strengthen its ties with Europe, it is essential to preserve a science-based pesticide regulatory system.A quote from Excerpt from the thesis of the 21 university researchers.
Countries like France are working on bills to ban the import of food treated with pesticides they ban (new window), which could harm Canada’s exports.
Canada already allows more than a hundred banned pesticides in the European Union. For example: atrazine, an endocrine disruptor that can turn male frogs into female frogs.
The study of the bill comes in a context where Health Canada to cut US$438 million in budget by 2029 and the management of the department responsible for the study of pesticides must see its number of full-time equivalent positions from 613 to 423.
With the collaboration of Marianne Depelteau
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