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Open letter
Dear Francois-Philippe Champagne,
You have two teenage daughters. I have two teenage sons. Your daughters are very likely to have their own personal smart phone, taking it wherever they go. Do they carry their phone in their bra? If so, even 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, there would be no problem at all, according to :
* Susan Hart, your ISED-Director General Spectrum Management Operations Branch, who is responsible to the 3500 MHz auction to further enable the roll-out of 5G;
* Brian Ahier , Health Canada’s Director Environmental and Radiation Health Sciences Directorate (ERHSD).
* William Amos, your former Parliamentary Secretary of Science and my local MP who introduced a bill in Parliament to roll out 5G wireless in rural areas (He just announced not to seek re-election).
All of them stated the following in their correspondence to me and my husband: “… If… anyone, including a small child, were exposed to RF energy from multiple sources within the SC6 limits for 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, there would be no adverse health effects.” Similar statements can be found on government web-pages. I have heard others who received exactly the same copy and paste work from ISED and Health Canada.
They know it
That safety-statement is simply not true and the three mentioned above and Industry and Health Canada know it. Or could and should have known by now that it is false and deceptive, misinforming and misleading Canadians. And misleading you. They must have decided to avert their eyes from the increasing body of independent, not-industry-sponsored science. Closing their ears in order not to hear about the increasing harm experienced by more and more Canadians and people worldwide.
Will you remember?
So when one of your daughters in time, would develop a breast tumor, exactly on the spot where she would have carried their phone in her bra, almost exactly shaped like her phone, then will you go back to Susan Hart, Brian Ahier, William Amos, Patty Hajdu and all the others within ISED and within Health Canada who kept clinging to their claim that radio-frequency radiation is perfectly safe? Would you remember this letter and the links below? If this letter ever reaches your desk, that is. Would you have been given the opportunity to watch the interview with the surgeon about the increased breast-cancer in young women, tumors shaped like their smart phones? Would you have watched the young women who developed tumors and who trace it back to wearing the phone in their bra?
Jobs or dis-ability?
Will you then realize that letters written on behalf of you, as Minister of Industry, Innovation and Science in 2021, ignoring the multiple appeals, has led to more people developing multiple types of cancers, brain tumors another example? How many Canadians will develop symptoms of dis-ease while not making the link to their exposure to RF radiation? You talk about creating jobs. Yet, this technology in its current form, deployed on the scale you authorize and promote, has created and will create increasing disabilities. People losing their jobs and livelihood because they cannot function in that type of society anymore. Already in 2015, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health. HESA adopted recommendations to address the harmful biological effects of this type of radiation. But then elections came, followed by a new (Liberal) government that made these recommendations disappear from sight.
Will you ask your daughters?
Back to your daughters. Will you impress upon your daughters to not put their smart phone in their bras? To not put the phone against their head (see my letter to Susan Hart)? To switch their phones off as much as possible, and/or put it in airplane mode? Will you ask your girls to read the phone manual which tells them to keep the phone away from their bodies (because the companies know)? Will you ask your daughters that whenever they’d get pregnant in the future, to keep their phone miles away from the developing fetus? Will you tell your girls that insurance companies such as Lloyd already recognized the risk of harm in 2011, and that many insurance companies have excluded paying out for harm caused by radio-frequency radiation?
Your daughters might laugh incredulously and keep doing what they are doing. Because how else would they stay connected with friends nowadays? They might think they are invincible, living in the here and now, less focused on long-term consequences of their behavior today. That is how their brain is wired, and for good reason; otherwise they would not dare to take a step in the world outside their homes. Their brains are still in development until well into their twenties. That is where we come in, as parents, as adults.
Fundamentally flawed
I do not expect you to change course as Minister of Industry, Science and Innovation. The Ministry is fundamentally flawed in its design being home to both industry development and science. Your focus is on stimulating science that can be monetized, that will help develop jobs. Inconvenient observations and research questions about the safety of certain technologies, are therefore suppressed as a result.
Canada is in need of a fundamental change in the field of science, needs to move towards open-minded and unbiased, unrestricted science and research questions. Canada is in need of people with courage, who dare to question, to consult and have integrity not attached to power, status, money and influence. I do not know you personally, so I cannot tell if you could be one of these people Canada so desperately needs.
But your teenage girls, my teenage boys and Canadians at large, including yourself, suffer and will suffer the consequences from this fatal flaw in the design of Canada’s research and knowledge system. It leads to ignoring inconvenient questions; it leads to ignoring (and systematically ridiculing) the increasing number of people who are falling ill. Many , politicians, scientists and civil servants cannot think but inside the box, holding on to dogma’s, looking for money absolving themselves from asking critical questions. They are “not moved by evidence”: they do not want to see and do not want to hear anything outside their box.
Willing to see
Elections are coming up. I see you travel from one city to another, making one investment announcement after another and promising more jobs to Canadians. It must seem impossible to imagine life in general and political campaigns without wireless technology. Yet, brilliant scientific minds could put their minds as much towards life-affirming technologies as they do to life-obstructing ones. There are other, and better ways to connect Canadians. People need to be willing to see.
But apparently the harm of current wireless technologies has to be repeated ad nauseam. More suffering needs to happen before the willingness to acknowledge it is there. Brain tumors are on the rise among young people. Politicians have left the scene and this life on earth because they succumbed to brain tumors, very likely linked to their enormous exposure to wireless technology day in, day out. Another possible effect of excessive use of smart , not-so-smart technology. Which politicians will be next?
We are living in extraordinary times. It asks for integrity, open minds and courage. For the sake of your daughters, for the sake of my sons. For the sake of Canada’s teens. The choice is yours.
Respectfully,
Margreet van den Berg
Chelsea, Quebec
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* Attached: correspondence to you and with Ms Hart (pdf file)
* Canada’s government claims of safety: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-risks-safety/radiation/occupational-exposure-regulations/safety-code-6-radiofrequency-exposure-guidelines.html#How_Safety_Code_2)
* Safety Code 6: outdated: https://c4st.org/safety-code-6/
* RADIOFREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC, RADIATION AND THE HEALTH OF CANADIANS
Report of the Standing Committee on Health, JUNE 2015, https://www.ourcommons.ca/documentviewer/en/41-2/hesa/report-13
* Parliamentary report calls for action on Wi-Fi , Paul Christopher Webster , CMAJ August 11, 2015 (short summary)
*https://www.cmaj.ca/content/187/11/E334
* Breast cancer & cell phone radiation
New Review Study Finds Cell Phone Radiation Increases Breast Cancer Risk
https://ehtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/Protect-Yourself-Breast-Cancer-Poster_8.5x11_08.26.19-1.pdf
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—— Original Message ——
From: “Margreet” <margreet
To: ISI.minister-ministre.ISI@canada.ca; Francois-Philippe.Champagne@parl.gc.ca
Cc: ic.stsdgso-dgogssst.ic@ised-isde.gc.ca; brian.ahier@canada.ca; William.Amos@parl.gc.ca; “susan.hart2@canada.ca.”
Sent: 2021-08-09 3:01:29 PM
Subject: Your daughters