- Target:
- Harper.S@parl.gc.ca
- Region:
- Canada
- Website:
- socialmediasuperhero.blogspot.com
Bedbugs are a serious health problem in Canada, due to the huge infestations and outbreaks that are occurring. It is the spraying of toxins to fight the bedbugs and the other elements related to the outbreaks that cause the health issues. Spraying toxins is not the answer.
A National Bedbug Strategy Must Be Implemented Immediately to help Canadians cope with this issue. Infestations cause serious sleep deprivation, stress, not to mention that many people are severely allergic. Children are most at risk from the harmful toxins that fumigators spray in peoples homes. Reports from a Bedbug Symposium in Vancouver in Nov 2010 showed that in most cases spraying does not work. The chemical used nowadays are for cockroachs. They do not target bedbugs and have to be done repeatly, exposing you and your family to cancerous chemicals.
There is a pandemic upon us. There needs to be a National Bedbug Strategy with Research and Development Funding to deal with this VERY SERIOUS ISSUE! To solve the bed bug problem nationwide, it will take a comprehensive public health campaign — public-service announcements, travel tips and perhaps even government-sponsored integrated pest management (IPM) programs for public housing and other high density areas.
Read more here at Beyond Pesticides http://www.beyondpesticides.org/infoservices/pesticidesandyou/Winter06-07/bedbugs.pdf
We, the undersigned, demand that Stephen Harper and Health Canada take immediate action to start a National Bedbug Education Campaign as well as secure funding to find natural ways such as heat or cold or other solutions to combat the National Bedbug epidemic with out spraying of toxins.
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The Call for Government to Start a National BedBug Strategy petition to Harper.S@parl.gc.ca was written by tina winterlik and is in the category Health at GoPetition.