E-7000: Petition to the Minister of Health — Canadian Petition Tracker
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Track petition E-7000 — "Petition to the Minister of Health" sponsored by Elizabeth May. 1,737 signatures and counting. See signature growth trends and provincial breakdown on PetitionTracker.ca.
Petition Text
Petition to the Minister of Health
Whereas:
• Anticoagulant rodenticides are now widely detected in Canadian wildlife, including owls, hawks, foxes, coyotes, and other predators;
• Neurotoxic rodenticides, including bromethalin, pose severe risks to pets and wildlife and have no antidote;
• These poisons cause internal bleeding, neurological damage, prolonged suffering, and widespread secondary poisoning when predators consume contaminated rodents;
• Anticoagulant and neurotoxic rodenticides are also leading causes of accidental pet poisonings in Canada;
• Numerous Canadian municipalities have already restricted or discontinued their use due to unacceptable ecological and animal-welfare impacts; and
• Safer and effective alternatives exist, including exclusion, sanitation, snap traps, dry-ice burrow control, and integrated pest management (IPM).
We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the Minister of Health to:
1. Direct the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) to take immediate action to protect wildlife, pets, and public health from anticoagulant and neurotoxic rodenticides, including bromethalin;
2. Ban the sale and use of anticoagulant and neurotoxic rodenticides for residential, commercial, and government use in Canada;
3. Require the PMRA to implement mandatory reporting of wildlife and domestic-animal poisonings linked to rodenticides;
4. Require that the PMRA mandate non-toxic, prevention-first rodent control methods (IPM) before any rodenticide is considered; and
5. Launch an immediate Special Review through the PMRA under Section 17 of the Pest Control Products Act to assess the ecological and public-health risks posed by anticoagulant and neurotoxic rodenticides.