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{
"time": "2013-10-25 12:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Frank Valeriote (Guelph, Lib.)",
"fr": "M. Frank Valeriote (Guelph, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3446380\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I rise today to table yet another petition on behalf of several hundred more constituents in Guelph with regard to their health concerns about cell towers.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3446381\" data-originallang=\"en\">The petitioners reference the World Health Organization, which has classified cell towers as a class 2B carcinogen. They also reference a National Research Council press report that cell towers should not be placed within 500 metres of residential properties, schools, hospitals, and daycares but should be at least 1000 metres away.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3446382\" data-originallang=\"en\">My constituents call on the Government of Canada to revise the Health Canada Safety Code 6 and enforce a moratorium on all new installations of cellular and wireless antennae and base stations until there are more studies. They also call for the immediate implementation of unbiased, non-industry-funded scientific research and ask the government to adopt the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health's report, entitled \u201cAn Examination of the Potential Health Impacts of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Radiation\u201d. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3446383\" data-originallang=\"en\">The indiscriminate installation of cell towers at just any location must stop now.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3446380\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je prends la parole aujourd'hui pour pr\u00e9senter une autre p\u00e9tition sign\u00e9e par plusieurs centaines d'autres \u00e9lecteurs de Guelph qui s'inqui\u00e8tent des risques que pr\u00e9sentent les tours de t\u00e9l\u00e9phonie cellulaire pour la sant\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3446381\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les p\u00e9titionnaires citent l'Organisation mondiale de la sant\u00e9, qui a class\u00e9 les tours de t\u00e9l\u00e9phonie cellulaire dans la cat\u00e9gorie des canc\u00e9rog\u00e8nes de type 2B. Les p\u00e9titionnaires mentionnent \u00e9galement de l'information de presse du Conseil national de recherches, dans laquelle on signale qu'aucune tour de t\u00e9l\u00e9phonie cellulaire ne devrait \u00eatre install\u00e9e dans un rayon de 500 m\u00e8tres d'une r\u00e9sidence, d'une \u00e9cole, d'un h\u00f4pital et d'une garderie; ces tours devraient se trouver plut\u00f4t \u00e0 au moins 1 000 m\u00e8tres de ces endroits. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3446382\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mes \u00e9lecteurs pressent le gouvernement du Canada de r\u00e9viser le Code de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 6 de Sant\u00e9 Canada et d'imposer un moratoire sur toute nouvelle installation d'antennes cellulaires et sans fil et de stations de base jusqu'\u00e0 ce qu'on dispose de plus d'\u00e9tudes. Les signataires demandent aussi que des recherches scientifiques, impartiales et non financ\u00e9es par l'industrie, soient imm\u00e9diatement entreprises. Ils invitent \u00e9galement le gouvernement \u00e0 adopter le rapport du Comit\u00e9 permanent de la sant\u00e9 de la Chambre des communes, intitul\u00e9 <em>Examen des effets possibles sur la sant\u00e9 du rayonnement \u00e9lectromagn\u00e9tique de radiofr\u00e9quences</em>. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3446383\" data-originallang=\"en\">L'installation al\u00e9atoire de tours de t\u00e9l\u00e9phonie cellulaire doit cesser imm\u00e9diatement.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2013/10/25/frank-valeriote-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/frank-valeriote/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1214/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8108213",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": "Affaires Courantes"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Petitions",
"fr": "P\u00e9titions"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Cell Towers",
"fr": "Les tours de t\u00e9l\u00e9phonie cellulaire"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2013/10/25/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2013%2F10%2F25%2F"
}
}