Canadian doctors seem to have touched a raw nerve this week with their support for a private member’s bill calling for a ban on fossil fuel advertising.
We should all be lining up to thank MP Charlie Angus (NDP, Timmins-James Bay) and the small but mighty Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) for what will likely be the most important public health intervention many of us will receive this year.
The news was not well received by the fossil fuel lobby, or the network of alt-right publications that reliably carry its message. You can expect that reaction to amp up in the weeks ahead.
But, really—if they’re all as grievously offended as they claim to be, that’s just one measure that Angus is onto something good with Bill C-372, the Fossil Fuel Advertising Act. And that CAPE is doing the right thing by supporting the bill.
Click here to read more about the legislation, and the health impacts of fossil fuel production.