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News Releases Heather Crowe asks Ministers of Labour to act quickly to ban smoking in all Canadian workplaces (Ottawa) – December 9, 2003. “On November 25, 2003, I wrote to all Canada’s Labour Ministers and asked them to move quickly to ban smoking in all Canadian workplaces,” said Heather Crowe. “That is how they can help employers and managers meet their new legal obligations under the Criminal Code (see PSC News Release of December 8, 2003 – Exposing workers to cigarette smoke could be a criminal offence). That is how they can safeguard the health of all Canadian workers; and that is how they can help me realize my wish to be last person to die from second-hand smoke in Canada,” concluded Ms. Crowe. Heather Crowe worked as a waitress for 40 years. Although she never smoked, she has inoperable lung cancer from workplace exposure to second-hand smoke. Ms. Crowe now works as a volunteer with Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada, tirelessly campaigning for smoke-free workplaces across Canada. Ms. Crowe had also written to Canada’s Labour Ministers exactly one year earlier, on November 25, 2002. In her November 25, 2003 letter, Ms Crowe also asked the Ministers of Labour for the opportunity to explain to them in person at their next meeting January 22-23 in Banff, Alberta the urgent need for new laws and regulation to ban smoking in all workplaces. According to an article in the Edmonton Journal of November 25, Clint Dunford, Alberta’s Minister of Labour and co-host of the upcoming Ministers’ meeting, promised to canvass his colleagues, the other Ministers of Labour, to see if Ms. Crowe’s presentation could be included on the agenda.
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Questions and Answers about Bill C-45 ("The Westray Bill") and Second-Hand Smoke in the Workplace Text of Heather Crowe's November 25, 2003 letter to Labour Ministers Text of Heather Crowe's November 25, 2002 letter to Labour Ministers |
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