Those of us who founded the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment in 1994 were ‘a bunch of environmentalists who just happened to be physicians’
In my time, I have co-founded a number of organizations, but I am particularly proud to have helped start CAPE — the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment — 30 years ago.
So we all got together in mid-1994 and by the end of that year had incorporated CAPE and become the Canadian affiliate of the International Society of Doctors for the Environment.In a 1996 brief to the National Forum on Health on the importance of ecosystem health as a determinant of human health, we noted: “As physicians, we are concerned both professionally and personally about how the health of our patients may be affected by environmental degradation.
It does so by “mobilizing the credible voice of health professionals, health science, and evidence;” over the past 30 years, CAPE has “engaged over 25,000 supporters … with close to 16,000 having taken action on a campaign!” The act also updates the framework for toxic substances, another CAPE priority campaign, requiring the federal government to consider the cumulative impacts of toxins, and their effects on vulnerable populations.
The latter led to a recent ruling that the ads “paid for by Canada Action, are inaccurate, misleading, and distort the true meaning of statements by scientists.”
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