Posts Tagged 'Asbestos'

Asbestos and Harper: When Facts Don’t Matter…

September 7, 2011

Friedrich Nietzsche once said “there are no facts, only interpretations.” With that in mind, let’s try to discern what Prime Minister Harper is thinking with his latest embrace of Quebec’s asbestos industry and its ridiculous assertion that the “safe use” of asbestos – outside of Canada, of course – is not some deadly joke on the world’s poor. Some “facts.” It is impossible to find a reputable, independent, peer-reviewed international medical research or workplace health and safety ...

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