CPCHE’s Coordinated Voice

The partner organizations of CPCHE respond to policy consultations as they arise and also seek to set a progressive agenda for ensuring children’s environmental health. This collection includes includes joint positions statements, letters and publications prepared by CPCHE or by sub-sets of CPCHE partner organizations.

  1. CPCHE Position Statement on Climate Change
  2. CPCHE signs joint letter to federal minister urging inclusion of measures to address cancer-causing radon in Canada’s new Greener Homes Program
    June 2021
    Letter
  3. CPCHE letter to the Prime Minister calling for improvements to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA)
    October 2, 2017
    Letter
  4. CPCHE submits letter to Ontario Ministry of Education urging radon testing, other environmental health measures in child care facilities
    May 2015
    Letter, Response to Consultation
  5. Letter to Government of Canada calling for restrictions on antibacterial chemical Triclosan
    December 2014
    Letter
  6. Support for Canadian Environmental Health Atlas Community Engagement Initiative Funding Request
    September 30, 2013
    Letter
  7. CPCHE Statement for Healthy Schools Day 2013: Reduce Radon… for our children’s health
    April 30, 2013
    Media Release
  8. Support needed for continuation of the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study
    February 19, 2013
    Letter
  9. Comments on Early Childhood Section of the Ministry of Children and Youth Services Website
    November 30, 2012
    Letter, Response to Consultation
  10. Lowering the national blood lead intervention level
    November 7, 2012
    Letter
  11. Child Health and Environment Experts Call for Urgent and Decisive Action to Address Global Climate Change and Persistent Toxic Substances
    June 19, 2012
  12. Actions needed to address children’s exposures to lead in Canada
    June 16, 2011
    Letter
  13. Focus on Bisphenol A – Statement of Health and Environmental Organizations on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
    October 2010
    Position Paper
  14. Immediate support needed for the expansion of the Maternal-Infant Research on Environmental Chemicals (MIREC) Study
    June 18, 2009
    Letter
  15. Support for Dr. T. Takaro’s Research Proposal “Does inhaled exposure to phthalates elicit adaptive or innate inflammatory pathways?”
    May 28, 2009
    Letter
  16. State of the Science and Revised Risk Management for PDBEs (CPCHE Response to consultation)
    May 27, 2009
    Letter, Response to Consultation
  17. Re: Health Committee Study of Bill C-6, An Act Respecting the Safety of Consumer Products
    May 27, 2009
    Letter, Response to Consultation
  18. Letter to Prime Minister Harper re Banning Persistent Organic Pollutants Under the Stockholm Convention
    May 1, 2009
    Letter
  19. Letter Urging Canadian Support for International Action to Phase Out the Use of Lead in Paints
    April 29, 2009
    Letter
  20. Letter regarding the Government of Canada’s Commitment to the Reduction of Global Mercury Pollution
    March 9, 2009
    Letter
  21. First Steps in Lifelong Health – A Vision and Strategy for Children’s Health and Environment in Canada (poster)
    February 2009
    Poster
  22. First Steps in Lifelong Health: A Vision and Strategy for Children’s Health and Environment in Canada (report)
    December 2008
    Report
  23. Proposed Toxics Reduction Legislation in Ontario
    October 11, 2008
    Letter, Response to Consultation
  24. Letter to Hon. Tony Clement, Minister of Health re: Immediate support needed for MIREC-ID to ensure Canadian leadership on children’s environmental health research
    June 6, 2008
    Letter
  25. Canada’s Budget: Investing in Children’s Environmental Health
    January 29, 2008
    Letter
  26. Children’s Health and the Environment – Letter to Kelli Leitch, Advisor on Healthy Children and Youth
    July 30, 2007
    Letter, Response to Consultation
  27. Letter to William Kennedy, Executive Director, Commission for Environmental Cooperation re: Comments on Draft Report – Taking Stock, A Special Report on Toxic Chemicals and Children’s Health in North America
    June 10, 2004
    Letter, Response to Consultation