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Campaigns

Current Campaigns

Halton Region

Gardens Off Drugs is a member group of the Healthy Halton Coalition along with Oakvillegreen Conservation Association, Pesticide Action Milton, Pesticide Action Burlington, and individual members from all over Halton including Halton Hills.

Formed in 2005, the Healthy Halton Coalition supports campaigns for pesticide bylaws in municipalities such as Burlington and Milton. The Coalition is also seeking a Region-wide bylaw which would protect all of the residents of Halton from unnecessary pesticide use.

To add your voice to local and regional campaigns, contact Gardens Off Drugs or write to Regional Chair Gary Carr at gary.carr@halton.ca and your Regional Council. All contact information for the Halton councillors is available at www.halton.ca .

The Province of Ontario

During the provincial election campaign of 2007, the Liberal Party announced that if re-elected, the new government would pass a comprehensive law restricting cosmetic pesticide use as is currently in effect in the Province of Quebec.

The Liberals were re-elected with a strong majority on October 10th, 2007. It is time for the Liberal government to follow through on its promise to protect the people of Ontario from harmful lawn and garden pesticides.

Please join Gardens Off Drugs and Pesticide Free Ontario in calling on the provincial government to pass a strong law restricting the sale and use of cosmetic pesticides immediately. Write to Premier McGuinty, Environment Minister John Gerretsen, and your local MPPs Ted Chudleigh (PC-Halton) and Kevin Flynn (Liberal-Oakville). E-mail addresses are: dmcguinty.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org, jgerretsen.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org, ted.chudleigh@pc.ola.org and kflynn.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org .

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2006 Campaigns

1. Gardens Off Drugs has developed two posters entitled This Spring Don't Spray and Don't Spray Where They Play that emphasize the serious health risks caused by pesticides to all life, especially to our children. To view one of them click on the link below. To order a free of charge lawn sign or copies of either poster that you can display in a window of your home or business contact Rene Lehnen at 905-339-2290.

This Spring Don't Spray

2. Letter to politicians