BREAKING NEWS
Canada delayed release of international health report linking profitable asbestos industry to lung cancer

April 16, 2009 – Canada’s delayed release of a medical report on the relationship between asbestos and lung cancer has refocused public attention on the future of the asbestos industry in Canada – a hot political issue in Quebec, where the nation’s asbestos mining industry is centered.

At issue is the report’s conclusion that there is a “strong relationship” between lung cancer and the chrysotile asbestos ore that is profitably mined in Quebec. Asbestos is a multimillion-dollar industry in Canada.

Health Canada, the nation’s federal health organization, received the report from a panel of international experts in March 2008, but held on to it for more than a year, according to Canadian news service Canwest, which had to wait 10 months to receive the report under Canada’s Access to Information act.

For months, panel chairman Trevor Ogden called for the agency to release the findings, and branded the stall “an annoying piece of needless government secrecy.”

A spokesperson for Health Canada attributed the delay in the report’s release to “time necessary to carefully review the findings of the report, and to consult other federal and provincial partners.”

Report: Quebec-Canada asbestos causes lung cancer

The asbestos mining industry in Canada is concentrated in a Quebec community called Thetford Mines, which today generates approximately 550 jobs.

One of the world’s largest exporters of chrysotile asbestos, Canada last year exported more than $100 million worth of the toxic ore to developing nations like India, Indonesia and Thailand, where regulations are lax or nonexistent and a lung cancer lawyer or a mesothelioma lawyer are unheard of.

Canada lawyer for asbestos lung cancer . . .

After two decades of achieving record-breaking verdicts and settlements for U.S. workers diagnosed with asbestos-related mesothelioma and lung cancer, Weitz & Luxenberg is pleased to announce that it has expanded its asbestos injury practice to Canada, and the residents of Quebec.

Workers or family members who have been diagnosed with job-related asbestos disease – lung cancer or mesothelioma – and who wish to pursue financial compensation for medical bills and their family’s future well-being, can now file a lung cancer lawsuit with confidence, the kind of confidence that only a New York-proven asbestos-injury law firm like Weitz & Luxenberg can inspire.

Please use the communication form on this page at no charge. The consultation is free and there is still no cost to you until the firm secures a verdict or settlement in your favor. Contact us today for a free evaluation of your case.