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Mr. Bradley seems to have put his experienced finger on a large portion of the problem - governmental communications problems of the highest and most dangerous order!! Interdepartmental cooperation and information sharing in general are a huge problem in our governments' internal workings, especially given the growing number of jurisdiction overlaps in such vital fields as environmental issues, various of which are federal, provincial and/or municipal. That said, protecting the country's citizens from toxins of all sorts should be a priority for any government. There is obviously no easy answer to this quandary - a national advisory board on the subject, which all applicable federal departments would be instructed to pay careful and diligent attention to (one can dream......), might be a good approach? The thorny issue of agricultural chemical use is a particularly important one because we can't all afford organic produce, and the effects of most commonly used (or considered) chemicals on children in particular, are extremely poorly known. That said, when governments all over the civilized world are making faster progress in protecting their citizens from such chemicals as chlorpyrifos and there various formulations (e.g.: Dursban), something is clearly wrong with the way our governmental system in general is safeguarding or ignoring our health and the health of the portion of the biosphere that our country has jurisdiction over. I get a headache just thinking about the sea-change that will be necessary to bring about significant improvement in this situation, given the dismally low priority environmental matters have in our current governmental milieu - a LOT of of hard work will be necessary. In the meantime, fighting threats to our collective health one at a time i believe is still a valid option, but we must constantly bear in mind (and be encouraging the improvement of!!) the larger picture and not get bogged down in the minutiae of the various issues to be tackled. -Ross Mayhew. "Brian C. Bradley" wrote: > Government departments continue to 'evolve' to the point where they not only 'pull it alone', but, in so doing, pull apart from other departments' activities/goals. This pulling apart leads to unnecessary burdens to the other departments as well as to the taxpayers. It will only be with an integrated approach, to the current and future issues, that all Canadian Government departments will provide effective leadership and guidance for the Canadian citizens. > I alluded to this necessity during our discussions when highlighting information provided by one department and virtually ignored by the others with the budget for correcting these ignorances currently running into the billions of dollars. Ñ -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- SUST-MAR TIP: messages to sust-mar must be plain text format (no HTML) -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
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