Get the Lead Out
Protect our Children from Lead Exposure in Schools and Child Care Centres
TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ONTARIO:
WHEREAS lead has negative effects on health and brain development, these impacts can be lifelong, and they are more pronounced in young children; and
WHEREAS the Ontario government has adopted a guideline for lead which allows exposure to a level of lead twice as high as the safety guideline set by the federal government; and
WHEREAS within the past four years, nearly half of Ontario schools have had at least one test for lead in drinking water that exceeds the federal
safety guideline; and
WHEREAS Ontario schools are already struggling to address a $16.8 billion repair backlog because the Ford government does not provide sufficient
funding for urgently needed school repairs; and
WE, the undersigned, petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to:
• Adopt the federal guidelines for lead exposure,
• Immediately create a lead remediation for Ontario schools with proper funding,
• Eliminate the school repair backlog by providing the necessary resources to fix our schools.