POLITICAL PARTIES
THE QUEENSLAND PARTY
SAYS NO TO FLUORIDE
Clean Water Policy: ❝ If in doubt, leave it out ❞
Posted on October 31, 2011 by Ruth Bonnett
Queensland’s only state-based party will ensure that water supplies are as safe and pure as possible, with toxic fluoride to be removed, under their Clean Water policy.
The Queensland Party’s Health and Disabilities Spokesperson, Wendy Richardson today affirmed that her party’s policy would be to ‘educate rather than medicate’.
“Surely we must all agree that it is an inalienable right for people to have water that is clean, pure and unadulterated. It must be the individual’s choice to add chemicals or any other material to that water, not a government’s.”
“For 50 years or more, the western world has been told that fluoridation was useful in the prevention of tooth decay, and most people, including our health professionals and politicians, believed that. However, more and more dentists, doctors and toxicologists are changing their minds as they realise that these opinions have been based on flawed or even concocted science.”
See also “LETTERS QUEENSLAND GOV.”
A MOTION CALLING FOR A BAN ON
FLUORIDATION
By The Green Party Of Canada
Subcategory: Health and Environment
Code: G10-p19
Toronto Danforth EDA, Davenport EDA, Vaughan EDA, York University Greens, Frank De Jong, Tom Eric, Halvorsen Jobi, Mike Kenny, Claudia Rodriguez-Larrain, Ingrid Sheriff, Constantine Kritsonis, Mike Dewar, Marie La Plume, Fay Neuber, Stefan Premdas, Bruce Hearns, Matt Turner
BE IT RESOLVED that the Green Party seeks to introduce and support legislation that will ban artificial fluoridation products in public drinking water.
Motion Operative:
WHEREAS the Green Party affirms that the precautionary principle should be used where there is evidence of potential harm in the absence of complete scientific consensus.
WHEREAS no statistical difference exists in rates of dental caries between areas that use artificial water fluoridation chemicals and those that do not (Statistics Canada);
WHEREAS fluoride is not removed in sewage treatment and remains a toxic constituent of the effluent discharged by treatment plants to rivers and lakes, and background levels of fluoride in the Great Lakes exceed the Canadian Water Quality Guideline (CWQG) for aquatic species, and fluoride concentrations in sewage effluent are 5-10 times in excess of the CWQG. At these concentrations fluoride is known to be toxic to a variety of water species such as salmon, caddisfly, daphnia & others;
WHEREAS the use of drinking water to deliver medications is not medically or environmentally sustainable, and the use of unregulated, unapproved medications in drinking water, without a prescription or informed consent is medically and environmentally not sustainable, and the daily dose of fluoride cannot be controlled and health effects from fluoride are not monitored;
Green Party of Canada website 22 August 2010
WHEREAS 97 percent of Europe does not use artificial water fluoridation products in their public drinking water supply, and 94 percent of the world’s population does not use artificial water fluoridation products in their public water supply;
Motion Preamble:
WHEREAS fluoridation products such as hexafluorosilicic acid and sodium silicofluoride are toxic by-products scrubbed from the smokestacks of the phosphate mining industry, and less than one percent of treated water is actually ingested by people and the remaining 99 percent is discharged into the environment.
This motion, in calling for a ban on the fluoridation of public drinking water,
would create a new policy and would involve the federal government stepping into an area that has
traditionally been within the jurisdiction of the provinces.
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We do not have the moral right to create a situation
from which the fluoride intolerant individual has no escape.
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EXTRACT FROM:
WEEKLY HANSARD
(Queensland)
Hansard Home Page: http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/hansard/
E-mail: hansard@parliament.qld.gov.au
Phone: (07) 3406 7314 Fax: (07) 3210 0182
51ST PARLIAMEN TCONTENTS Page
PROOF ISSN 1322-0330
Subject
BY AUTHORITY
L.J. OSMOND, CHIEF HANSARD REPORTER—2004
Wednesday, 23 February 2005
PETITIONS
Mrs CARRYN SULLIVAN:
(Pumicestone—ALP)







