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Canada: A Victory for Victims of Environmental Sensitivities or Multiple Chemical Sensitivities

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"Access to a safe environment is a human rights issue."  Following is the testimony of a person suffering from environmental / multiple chemical sensitivity, Varda Burstyn, who, finally with the help of  Ecojustice, fought and won her battle for systemic recognition and procedures that will make it more possible for other people with Environmental Sensitivities to apply for the same tax credits open to people with other disabilities and impairments.  A WEEP News contributor comments, "This settlement may help other people with EHS (electrohypersensitivity) / MCS who have become homeless, have moving expenses, have extra medical expenses, paid for shielding renovations, special paint, meters moved, etc."
 

A victory for victims of environmental sensitivities or multiple chemical sensitivities 
posted by John Swaigen and Robert Peterson, Staff Lawyers, Ecojustice, 13 March 2013

Some of our legal victories for Canadians and their environment attract major news coverage. Others, like our work with Varda Burstyn, make less of a splash but are equally as important. Varda Burstyn is an award-winning Canadian author who suffers from Environmental Sensitivities or Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (ES/MCS). People with this condition are affected by chemicals most of us don’t notice on a on a moment to moment basis, but which are responsible for major health harms expressed in chronic illnesses and reproductive and neurological disorders.
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