In the late 1980's, Conservative, Liberal and NDP MP's worked with Health and Welfare to bring environmental sensitivities out from being eclipsed by clinical ecology and the MCS model, immunology and the allergy model, psychiatry and the PTSD/eating-disorder model, the pharmaceuticals are dangerous model, and so on.
Legendary Sudbury NDP MPP Elie Martel worked hard for years to stop preventable harm being caused to persons with environmental sensitivities. But when the NDP got into power in Ontario, they pretended they weren't aware of legally obligating information the federal government had already acted on, ironically thanks in part to pressure from the federal and Ontario NDP.
10 August 2007 - While in opposition, John Manley, MP, helped to forward concerns about preventable harm being caused to persons with environmental sensitivities. Once he was in government, the fact kids were being abused in schools and injured or killed while receiving health care didn't faze him. His government had reversed the position he'd fought for.
