{"id":287691,"date":"2010-02-06T20:01:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T01:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldtradelaw.typepad.com\/ielpblog\/2010\/02\/more-asbestos-case-followup.html"},"modified":"2010-02-06T20:01:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T01:01:54","slug":"more-asbestos-case-follow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/287691","title":{"rendered":"More Asbestos Case Follow-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following-up on this follow-up post<\/a>, here's more<\/a> about current disagreements over trade in asbestos:<\/p>\n

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Controversy over asbestos exports continued to dog Quebec Premier Jean Charest right up to the very last day of a trade mission to India.<\/p>\n

Indian unions and other groups twice called on Charest during the week-long mission to put a halt to the export of the cancer-linked material that is used in construction.<\/p>\n

And just days prior to leaving on the mission, more than 100 scientists from 28 countries lent their support to a letter urging the premier to put a stop to asbestos exports from the province.<\/p>\n

But the premier insisted Saturday the debate over risks related to the use of asbestos – also called chrysotile – is a thing of the past.<\/p>\n

"We reflected a long time over chrysotile and it is politically part of our history," he said. "The Quebec position is well known and, I believe, where it needs to stand."<\/p>\n

Charest said it was necessary to make do with the risks related to asbestos even in developing countries where labour standards are not always respected.<\/p>\n

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He maintained it was the Indian government's responsibility to ensure proper use of the product.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Following-up on this follow-up post, here's more about current disagreements over trade in asbestos: Controversy over asbestos exports continued to dog Quebec Premier Jean Charest right up to the very last day of a trade mission to India. Indian unions and other groups twice called on Charest during the week-long mission to put a halt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}