Key Reports
To find out more about the pesticide issue, please browse the following key reports, which document the movement toward the reduction and eventual elimination of non-essential pesticide use both locally and across Canada.
Playing it Safe: Proposed Community Action Plan
This plan was developed based on the results of local surveys, discussions with organizations and individuals in the community, and the conclusions of legal, health, environmental and scientific organizations across the country.
- Community Action Plan Brochure (PDF
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Ipsos-Reid Survey on Pesticide Use in the CRD
Commissioned in September of 2007 by the Capital Regional District and paid for in part by some area municipalities, electoral areas, the Islands Trust and the Canadian Cancer Society, this report indicates that 76 percent of local residents would support their municipality passing a bylaw restricting pesticide use in the home and garden.
Alternatives to Pesticides in the CRD
Three public consultation meetings were held in the fall of 2004 across the region. The public and stakeholder groups were invited to comment on the proposed community action plan.
Pesticides, Making the Right Choice for the Protection of Health & the Environment
A report by the Federal Standing Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development, House of Commons, Canada, May 2000
Supreme Court of Canada's Hudson, Quebec Decision
The Supreme Court of Canada made a precedent-setting decision with respect to Hudson, Quebec in 2001 that upheld the power of municipal governments to restrict the use of pesticides in their communities and reinforced the ability of municipal governments to protect both the health of their citizens and their local environment.
Environmental Standard Setting & Children's Health
The Ontario College of Family Physicians and the Canadian Environmental Law Association released this report in 2000, concluding “The cumulative effects of being exposed to many different pesticides over a lifetime represent an unquantified and unacceptable risk to all Canadian children.”
The Impact of By-Laws & Public Education Programs on Reducing the Cosmetic/Non-Essential, Residential Use of Pesticides: A Best Practices Review
A study conducted by the Canadian Centre for Pollution Prevention.
- Best Practices Review (PDF )
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