PQ POLICY COULD PUT AN END TO CANADA’S ASBESTOS INDUSTRY
September 1st, 2012
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
CANADA'S controversial asbestos industry could be shut down for good if political party Parti Québécois (PQ) wins Québéc's provincial election on September 4. Just days before voters go to the polls, the PQ has announced that if elected, they will cancel the CAD58 million (USD58.8 million) loan recently granted by the current provincial government, to what would be Canada's last asbestos mine.
After two years in production limbo after resources became exhausted in 2010, the open-pit Jeffrey Mine in Asbestos, Québec was awarded the loan ...
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