Ontario’s top three politicians are awash with pollutants, from PCBs to pesticides, stain repellents to flame retardants. And it seems the party leaders are more polluted than the average Canadian, according to a report released yesterday by a Toronto-based watchdog group.
Premier Dalton McGuinty, NDP Leader Howard Hampton and Progressive Conservative Leader John Tory offered up blood and urine samples to Environmental Defence to test for 70 different chemicals, including organochlorine pesticides, such as DDT, air pollutants called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, and, for the first time, bisphenol A, a chemical commonly used in plastics.
The tests revealed the politicians carried a total of 46 pollutants in their bodies, many of which have been linked to cancer, respiratory illness and hormonal problems. All three leaders had higher concentrations of chemicals than five families tested by Environmental Defence last year.
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