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Quebec is home of one of world's largest commercial deposits of asbestos, as well as of Canada's only two asbestos mines, said The Gazette in an opinion article on June 9, 2008.

The article, which focused on the fact that school buildings there still contain asbestos, pointed out that Quebec continues to produce and export asbestos to such countries as India and China.

In the strongly worded piece, the editorial said, "We continue to live and die with it as well, having failed to remove it from the public buildings, such as schools, where it used in its heyday as Quebec's magic product."

The writer goes on to say that the Quebec government cannot pretend that it doesn't know how harmful asbestos is.

"We should not be allowing people to work in buildings in which asbestos fibers are floating in the environment, contaminating the very air that students, teachers and civil servants must breathe."

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