Dear Prime Minister Trudeau

From: Sharon Noble 
Sent: May 11, 2016 
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Subject: Health Canada is misleading the public, misrepresenting facts re. wireless radiation

Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, and HESA Committee Members,

I am writing in support of Mr. Jerry Flynn’s charge that Health Canada is misusing its authority by misleading the public about the scientific evidence which shows that there is strong evidence that prolonged exposure to even small amounts of microwave radiation can cause harm, especially to children.

I charge that Health Canada provides erroneous, inaccurate and outdated information to the public, and following are just two examples from its current websites.

1)    “As long as RF energy levels remain below Health Canada’s RF safety guidelines, current scientific evidence supports the assertion that RF energy emissions from Wi-Fi devices are not harmful. Health Canada’s conclusions are consistent with the findings of other international bodies and regulators, including the World Health Organization http://www.who.int/peh-emf/en/, the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection http://www.icnirp.org/, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers http://www.ieee.org/index.html and the U.K. Health Protection Agency https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/public-health-england.

RF energy exposure from Wi-Fi equipment in all areas accessible to the general public are required to meet Health Canada’s safety guidelines. The limits specified in the guidelines are far below the threshold for adverse health effects and are based on an ongoing review of thousands of published scientific studies on the health impacts of RF energy. The public exposure limits apply to everyone, including children, and allow for continuous, 24/7 exposure.” http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/iyh-vsv/prod/wifi-eng.php

2)    ““What does Health Canada say about the potential health risks from Wi-Fi? Based on scientific evidence, Health Canada has determined that low-level exposure to radiofrequency (RF) energy from Wi-Fi equipment is not dangerous to the public. This conclusion is consistent with the findings of other international bodies and regulators.

Should parents be concerned about Wi-Fi in schools? No. RF energy levels from Wi-Fi equipment in all areas accessible to the general public, including school settings, are required to meet Health Canada’s exposure guidelines. The limits specified in the guidelines are based on an ongoing review of thousands of published scientific studies on the health impacts of RF energy. Levels of RF energy emitted from Wi-Fi equipment are typically well below these exposure limits. As long as exposure is below these established limits, there is no convincing scientific evidence that emissions from this equipment are dangerous to schoolchildren or to Canadians in general.” http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/radiation/cons/wifi/faq-eng.php

Below this letter is a list of 60 links that contain information that refutes Health Canada’s assertion that wifi is safe. These contain many peer reviewed studies by world-renowned scientists, showing that the proliferation of microwave radiation must be curtailed for the sake of the health of future generations.

Parents are being misled, but, worse, provincial health authorities are, too. Provincial medical officers merely follow Health Canada’s lead and, consequently, being unaware and uneducated on the topic, are allowing wired internet access to be replaced with wireless industrial-strength modems that are exposing children and teachers to high levels of radiation all day every school day. No information is provided to parents about this health hazard, and when children become ill, parents and doctors are left trying to find the cause. When parents discover that their children are exhibiting symptoms consistent with radiation illness first diagnosed 80 years ago, the schools refuse to eliminate wifi. and tell the parents that it can’t be the wifi because Health Canada says it’s safe.

How can Health Canada defend its statement that its position is consistent will other international bodies, including the World Health Organization when it knows that in May, 2011, the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified radiation from all wireless devices in the same category as lead and DDT. This classification means IT IS NOT SAFE. I cannot paint my home with paint that has lead or spray my yard with DDT, but my grandchildren are being subjected to wireless radiation without their parents’ being informed or giving their approval. This appears to be blatant misrepresentation of the facts.

Health Canada has ignored the HESA recommendations since 2010, and unless drastic measures are taken they will continue to ignore them. I and many thousands of Canadians are outraged by this lack of due diligence on behalf of Health Canada and ask that they be held accountable for their willful blindness.

Sincerely, 
Sharon Noble

– Leonard Hardell – in Letter to WHO regarding brain tumour risk associated with exposure to radiofrequency fields https://lennarthardellenglish.wordpress.com/2015/08/07/letter-to-who-regarding-brain-tumour-risk-associated-with-exposure-to-radiofrequency-fields/

Wi-Fi in Schools: Testing for Microwave Radiation Dangers in the Classroom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO0AnNHz8vI&feature=youtu.be

World Health Organization Confirms that Wi-Fi and Cell Phone Radiation are Class B Carcinogens http://safetechforschoolsmaryland.blogspot.ca/2016/02/world-health-organization-confirms-that.html
“IARC’s evaluation of the cancer hazards from exposure to Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields covers all sources of RF-radiation.” …includes Wi-Fi , as confirmed by WHO.

Dr Andrew Goldsworthy on WI-FI in Schools http://www.emfacts.com/2011/11/dr-andrew-goldsworthy-on-wi-fi-in-schools/ http://mcs-america.org/june2011pg2345.pdf.
 
Study: Long-term, low-level microwave exposure may inhibit learning and memory http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26383594?dopt=Abstract

Effect the Cell Towers Have Had on My Son – From a California Mother in the USA http://www.parentsforsafetechnology.org/our-stories-and-our-children.html

Letter to the Health Committee in Ottawa Asking to Ban Wi-Fi from Canadian Schools http://www.cqlpe.ca/pdf/Letter_to_HESAMarch182016.pdf

Why Die for Wi-Fi? My Child Did – Will Yours? http://mieuxprevenir.blogspot.ca/2016/05/why-die-for-wi-fi-my-child-did-will.html

Electromagnetic hypersensitivity – an increasing challenge to the medical profession http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26372109
In population-based surveys, the prevalence of EHS has ranged from 1.5% in Sweden to 13.3% in Taiwan. CONCLUSION: It seems necessary to give an International Classification of Diseases to EHS to get it accepted as EMF-related health problems. The increasing exposure to RF-EMF in schools is of great concern and needs better attention. Longer-term health effects are unknown. Parents, teachers, and school boards have the responsibility to protect children from unnecessary exposure.

Schools Worldwide Removing the WiFi/Taking Action http://ehtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/SchoolsUnionsandPTAsPrecautionaryActions.pdf

Safe School Committee – Every Child has a Right to a Healthy and Safe School http://www.safeschool.ca/

Children are More Vulnerable to Wireless Radiation http://www.parentsforsafetechnology.org/why-children-are-more-vulnerable.html
Children are more vulnerable to the damage wireless can cause. Here’s why… Children have smaller heads, thinner skulls, rapidly developing brains, a higher amount of water in their brains and bodies and have more active stem cells. According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the average radio frequency radiation energy deposition for children exposed to mobile phone RF is two times higher in the brain and 10 times higher in the bone marrow of the skull, compared with mobile phone use by adults.

Wi-Fi in schools: Alberta parents debate its safety – Concerns that radiation emitted from routers could harm children http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/wi-fi-in-schools-alberta-parents-debate-its-safety-1.2999768

California Parents Are Calling For Safe Technology and the Removal of Wi-Fi in Their Schools http://safetechforschoolsmaryland.blogspot.ca/2016/03/california-parents-are-calling-for-safe.html
Nationwide, parents are raising this issue in their schools. Please watch these excellent video testimonies to the School Board on the Wi-Fi roll out. Voir aussi les autres liens à droite sur ce blogue.

Wi-Fi in Canadian Schools: A Health and Safety Issue http://c4st.org/WiFiCanadianSchools
50 peer-reviewed scientific studies documenting potentially harmful biological effects of Wi-Fi frequency (2.4-2.45 GHz) at or below Health Canada’s Safety Code.

Ontario High School Students Speak Out Against WiFi Risk For Infertility and Cancer http://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/ontario-high-school-students-speak-out-against-wifi-risk-for-infertility-and-cancer-570470701.html

Teachers concerned over WiFi health risks http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2016/03/21/teachers-concerned-over-wifi-health-risks/
Ontario’s elementary and secondary school teachers unions in Kingston Ontario say they want WiFi turned off in schools until more information is available on the safety of its radiation. More on this, including a TV report HERE.)

Wi-Fi In Classroom Liability Notice Served To New York School District https://youtu.be/RmhOP_vlK1c

We live in a wired world, ignoring potential threats from our devices http://www.pressherald.com/2016/03/20/sea-changewe-live-in-a-wired-world-ignoring-the-serious-potential-threats-to-our-health-from-our-devices/

EMFs: sense and sensitivity https://www.wddty.com/magazine/2016/may/emfs-sense-and-sensitivity.html
Health agencies are in denial over the existence of EHS-electromagnetic hypersensitivity-and especially that EMFs from PCs, mobile phones, Wi-Fi and power lines could be to blame. … Estimates vary for the number of people affected by EHS. Researchers have reckoned that anything from 1 to 8 per cent of a population may be so sensitive that they can’t function properly, while many more could have symptoms, such as insomnia or occasional memory lapses, but never associate them with ‘electrosmog’, as it’s called. With this build-up of evidence and recognition of EHS by some governments, one group of scientists now wants every major country to accept the dangers of EMFs and limit the exposure of people-and especially children. … Dr Mallery-Blythe describes the rise of EMFs as “the largest change to the earth’s electromagnetic environment that has ever taken place in human history”. Unless we act, she echoes the fears of experts who predict that this could become “the greatest public health disaster in planetary history”.

Israeli TV Warns of Wi-Fi Dangers in Schools http://www.odwyerpr.com/story/public/6459/2016-03-07/israeli-tv-warns-wi-fi-dangers-schools.html
 
Scientist Tells Libraries, Schools to Ditch Wi-Fi http://www.odwyerpr.com/story/public/6405/2016-02-26/scientist-tells-libraries-schools-ditch-wi-fi.html

Children rap Wi-Fi – 594,309 cell towers blast neighborhoods – wireless burglar alarms are dangerous https://elettrosensibili.wordpress.com/2016/03/03/children-rap-wi-fi594309-cell-towers-blast-neighborhoodswireless-burglar-alarms-are-dangerous/
(Students, among the biggest victims of excess Wi-Fi radiation, are starting to speak up. Kill Zone USA notes there are now 594,309 cell towers emitting pulsed radiation. Wireless burglar alarms are a no-no. A high school student asked the Montgomery County Board Feb. 9 how it could allow virtually every classroom to have Wi-Fi connected computers at each desk “turning the school into a giant microwave” when the wired option makes this “simply unnecessary. I feel extremely uncomfortable going to school every day, supposedly a safe haven, and seeing my friends sitting directly under the transmitters,” she said. “Renowned scientists all over the world have shown the possible side effects of radiation including brain cancer, tumors, blood/brain barrier deterioration and other effects,” she added. “It is a violation of the rights of students and teachers,” she said.)

The Elephant in the Classroom http://haltmasmartmeters.org/the-elephant-in-the-classroom/
I am intimately familiar with this issue – and the retaliation that goes along with speaking out about it – as my own two children were irreparably harmed after industrial strength wireless networks were installed in their public charter and public district schools here in Rhode Island. These installations were accomplished without parental notification about the class 2b carcinogen (electromagnetic radiation) being emitted by the WiFi access points and other wireless devices (laptops, SmartBoards, etc.). Parents were never given the facts about these installations, and as a result it took a long time to make the connection between the progression of my children’s symptoms and the radiation being emitted by the wireless devices in their schools. Unfortunately by the time the pieces of the puzzle fit together, the damage was already done and my kids had developed what I’ve been told will be a lifelong, permanent and disabling sensitivity. (…) This denial on the part of school and state officials is happening all over the country as children and teachers continue to report they are getting sick from WiFi.

It May Not Be Impossible After All: Weak Magnetic Fields Can Promote Cancer http://microwavenews.com/short-takes-archive/barnes-greenebaum-weak-field-effects

Dr. Klinghardts Advice for Young People http://youtu.be/Kr7NzTdDL84

Health Concerns from Wi-Fi In Schools FOX 5 News Featuring EHT’s Cell Phone Absorption Research http://smartmeternewsupdates.wordpress.com/2016/02/28/health-concerns-from-wi-fi-in-schools-fox-5-news-featuring-ehts-cell-phone-absorption-research/

Experts Call for Public School District to Correct Inaccurate Website on Wireless Radiation Safety http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/experts-call-for-public-school-district-to-correct-inaccurate-website-on-wireless-radiation-safety-665616.htm

The French Govt bans Wi-fi in Schools to save kinds from Electromagnetic Radiation http://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/health-files/the-french-govt-bans-wi-fi-in-schools-to-save-kinds-from-electromagnetic-radiation/1272

Stop Untested Microwave Radiation of Children’s Brains and Eyes EHT Scientists Urge Google http://ehtrust.org/stop-untested-microwave-radiation-of-childrens-brains-and-eyes-eht-scientists-urge-google/
 
(Virtual Reality with Smartphones Is A Health Risk for Children – REGARDEZ CETTE VIDÉO ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSbEUSvGcLc&feature=youtu.be 
Google Virtual Reality App Teleports Students From Mars To Coral Sea Horreur ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rrJEMr-Z0c&feature=youtu.be
– We have never tested microwave radiating devices directly in front of the young developing eye. The absence of proof of harm at this point does not mean that we have evidence of safety. We want to know why is Google encouraging young children to employ a technology that has never been tested for their use when Samsung has a similar system that explicitly advises that no child under the age of 13 should be using it. (…) Several scientific investigations have shown that cataracts among humans and laboratory animals occur as a result of eye exposure to microwave/radiofrequency radiation. The eyes are highly vulnerable to radiation damage because they contain few blood vessels and have no way to cool off.)

Doctors caution on hazards of Wi-Fi use – Concern over keeping Wi-Fi routers active in houses http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Telangana/2016-02-08/Doctors-caution-on-hazards-of-Wi-Fi-use/205640

Gwyneth Paltrow’s site goop tackles Wi-Fi dangers http://buildingbiologyblog.com/2016/02/03/gwyneth-paltrows-site-goop-tackles-wi-fi-dangers/

New York PTA Calls For Wi-Fi To Be Turned Off http://safetechforschoolsmaryland.blogspot.ca/2016/04/new-york-pta-calls-for-wi-fi-to-be.html 
Major Wifi Controversy as School District is Served With Legal Liability Notice … Board members who voted in for keeping the Wi-Fi are now personally liable if a child is harmed by the wireless radiation exposures. They could be sued for “willful blindness”,”child negligence” or possibly even charged with “reckless endangerment of a child” of which the latter carries criminal penalties.

Did CELLRAID do ‘volkswagen’ to the telecom industry? https://betweenrockandhardplace.wordpress.com/2016/01/21/did-cellraid-do-volkswagen-to-the-telecom-industry/ 
“Difficult to believe that when industry has grown from 70 million to 5 billion users in 20 years, data from 0% to 90+%, smart phones from 0 to 60+% , children usage from 0% to about 100%… we still have the same regulation… thinking that the phone is on the ear at a 15 mm distance from the skull, and communication is seen as occasional once in a week voice call from grand-mom when the reality is that youngsters are participating in dozens of whats up groups, receiving data 24/7, and keeping phone under their pillow.”

BBC 2008 report – Wi-fi a warning signal http://www.mastsanity.org/watch-these/142-bbc-panorama-22507-wifi-a-warning-signal.html 
The Government insists Wi-Fi is safe, but a Panorama investigation shows that radio frequency radiation levels in some schools are up to three times the level found in the main beam of intensity from mobile phone masts. There have been no studies on the health effects of Wi-Fi equipment, but thousands on mobile phones and masts.

Italian town shuts down Wi-Fi over health fears http://www.thelocal.it/20160108/italy-town-turns-off-school-wifi-over-health-concerns 
A northern Italian town has shut off Wi-Fi in two schools due to the risks it could pose to children’s health. Mayor Livio Tola told the town’s high school and elementary school to return to using cables to connect to the internet after reading that the electromagnetic waves given off by wireless routers were especially harmful to young children.

EMF in Schools, CHPS Takes a Stand http://healthybuildingscience.com/2015/01/21/emf-in-schools/
Collaborative for High Performance Schools – CHPS

Council of Europe: Restrict Wi-Fi and Mobile Phone Use in Schools http://www.saferemr.com/2013/03/council-of-europe-called-for-council-of.html

3 times more DNA damage and brain damage from cell phones during pregancy https://youtu.be/LZicHZaUKps 
Dr. Devra Davis first gives some really compelling examples in this 15 min video of past scientific negligence with tobacco and asbestos that led to excessively long delays before the lethal harm that those products cause was finally recognized. The same problem is happening again with microwave exposure. Cell Phone radiation damages the reproductive organs as detailed by Dr. Devra Davis. More than one hundred physicians, scientists and public health professionals from around the world have joined together to express their concern about the risk that wireless radiation poses to pregnancy and to urge pregnant women to limit their exposures. http://www.babysafeproject.org
Maryland Parents Battle Wi-Fi in Schools http://www.odwyerpr.com/story/public/6215/2016-01-26/maryland-parents-battle-wi-fi-schools.html

“Opt For Wired” Dr. Martha Herbert, Harvard Pediatric Neurologist Writes MCPS http://safetechforschoolsmaryland.blogspot.ca/2015/12/opt-for-wired-dr-martha-herbert-harvard.html

Wi-Fi and Cell Towers are “likely hazardous and unsafe for students, staff and teachers” writes Neuroscientist Dr. Olle Johansson to Montgomery County Schools Maryland http://safetechforschoolsmaryland.blogspot.ca/2015/12/wi-fi-and-cell-towers-are-likely.html

“The exposure levels of the Federal Communications Commission are totally outdated and do not protect the health of the public, especially of children” writes Harvard Trained Medical Doctor and former MCPS parent Dr. David Carpenter urging MCPS to abandon plans for wireless in schools http://safetechforschoolsmaryland.blogspot.ca/2015/12/the-exposure-levels-of-federal.html

“Legal does not mean safe” Expert in toxicology Dr. Devra Davis urges MCPS Schools to reduce WiFi exposure. http://safetechforschoolsmaryland.blogspot.ca/2016/01/legal-does-not-mean-safe-expert-in.html

Pediatric Occupational Therapist Cris Rowan Writes MCPS that “Wireless could constitute neglect of children” http://safetechforschoolsmaryland.blogspot.ca/2015/12/pediatric-occupational-therapist-cris.html

WiFi in Schools is “Sheer Insanity” writes Biochemist Martin Pall to MCPS Schools http://safetechforschoolsmaryland.blogspot.ca/2016/01/wifi-in-schools-is-sheer-insanity.html

“FCC standards do not consider the effects of radiofrequency radiation (RFR) emitted by WiFi on children or pregnant women” writes author of Electronic Silent Spring, Katie Singer, to Montgomery County Schools http://safetechforschoolsmaryland.blogspot.ca/2015/12/fcc-standards-do-not-consider-effects.html

Bioinitiative Co-Editor Cindy Sage And Professor Trevor Marshall Write To MCPS stating that Their $14,000 Wi-Fi Radiation Measurements Are Flawed And “Cannot be used to infer safety” http://safetechforschoolsmaryland.blogspot.ca/2015/12/bioinitiative-co-editor-cindy-sage-and.html

“We cannot afford to experiment in this manner on our children and grandchildren” writes Ellie Marks, Director of the California Brain Tumor Association, to Montgomery County Schools http://safetechforschoolsmaryland.blogspot.ca/2015/12/we-cannot-afford-to-experiment-in-this.html

MCPS’s statement that there is “no scientific evidence” establishing a causal link between wireless device use and any illnesses is a flat out lie” writes Arthur Firstenberg of the Cellular Task Force to MCPS http://safetechforschoolsmaryland.blogspot.ca/2015/12/mcpss-statement-that-there-is-no.html

Safety Experts From Finland, Estonia and Sweden Write MCPS To Recommend Wired Internet For Classrooms http://safetechforschoolsmaryland.blogspot.ca/2015/12/safety-experts-from-finland-estonia-and.html

Massachusetts Public School District Reduces Wireless Radiation In Schools With Mobile Device Best Practices – letter by Cece Doucette detailing how Ashland public schools is taking steps to reduce exposures in classrooms http://safetechforschoolsmaryland.blogspot.ca/2015/12/massachusetts-public-school-district.html

UK Expert Engineer Calls On MCPS Technology Office To Remove Incorrect Statements About Wireless Radiation Measurements http://safetechforschoolsmaryland.blogspot.ca/2015/11/uk-company-calls-on-mcps-technology.html

“Does the state of willful ignore exempt you from liability?” Silicon Valley Philanthropist writes Montgomery County Schools http://safetechforschoolsmaryland.blogspot.ca/2016/02/does-state-of-willful-ignore-exempt-you.html

World Health Organization Confirms that Wi-Fi and Cell Phone Radiation are Class B Carcinogens http://safetechforschoolsmaryland.blogspot.ca/2016/02/world-health-organization-confirms-that.html

International Radiation Expert Confirms The FACTS About The Link Between Cancer and Cell Phones http://safetechforschoolsmaryland.blogspot.ca/2015/12/mcps-international-radiation-expert.html

Wi-Fi In Classroom Liability Notice Served To New York School District https://youtu.be/RmhOP_vlK1c

10 Myths About Wireless Technology http://www.nacst.org/10-myths.html

Why children absorb more microwave radiation than adults: The consequences http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213879X14000583

The French Govt bans Wi-fi in Schools to save kinds from Electromagnetic Radiation http://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/health-files/the-french-govt-bans-wi-fi-in-schools-to-save-kinds-from-electromagnetic-radiation/1272

Dr Olle Johansson:
Electrohypersensitivity: a functional impairment due to an inaccessible environment http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26613327

Sharon Noble
Director, Coalition to Stop Smart Meters

“You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and acted on.” ~  Ben Franklin

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