Petition by RFK Jr. fan leads to water fluoridation vote by Montreal council

Municipal officials are considering an extremity to h2o fluoridation connected the land of Montreal successful a determination spurred by a petition from a nonmigratory who claims helium has the enactment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

A assembly representing Montreal and the suburban municipalities connected the land volition ballot Thursday evening connected whether to halt the signifier successful the six West Island suburbs that dainty their h2o with fluoride.

The Montreal agglomeration assembly says it began to survey the contented aft receiving a petition successful 2020 from nonmigratory Ray Coelho, who says helium has spoken to Kennedy connected a fewer occasions.

Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic who has been tapped by U.S. president-elect Donald Trump to beryllium his wellness secretary, claims that fluoride is an “industrial waste” linked to a scope of wellness problems, and has said the Trump medication volition region fluoride from the U.S. nationalist h2o supply.

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Heidi Ektvedt, politician of 1 of the affected communities, says the metropolis lone told her astir its program successful September, 4 years aft receiving the petition, and she says residents haven’t been consulted.

The Montreal h2o section says its proposal to halt putting fluoride successful the h2o is based connected method and economical factors, though it notes that nationalist wellness officials are successful favour of fluoridation arsenic an effectual mode to trim bony decay.