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Canada: MPs On Health Committee Seek More Warnings About Cellphones, Wi-Fi, Baby Monitors

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Frank Clegg of Canadians For Safe Technology (former President of
Microsoft Canada) looks on from right as Conservative MP Terence Young
calls for tougher warnings on cell phones during a press conference on
Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, January 19, 2015. / CP
Frank Clegg, former President of Microsoft Canada and CEO, Canadians for Safe Technology:  "Unfortunately, Canadians are clueless that, if not used properly, these devices (cellphones, cordless phones, baby monitors and wireless routers) can harm them, their children and grandchildren.

"I don’t blame parents. They don’t know. I blame Health Canada for not running a campaign to say, mom and dad, don’t use these things as pacifiers,' he said, about cellphones and tablets."

MPs On Health Committee Seek More Warnings About Cellphones, Wi-Fi, Baby Monitors
by Althia Raj, Huff Post Canada, 1st June 2015

OTTAWA — The federal government should do more to warn Canadians about the dangers of Wi-Fi, cellphones and baby monitors, some MPs on the Commons health committee say.

"We are in a soup of radiation from cellphone and cellphone towers, and baby monitors and iPads," Conservative MP Terence Young told The Huffington Post Canada. Health Canada, the department charged with helping Canadians maintain and improve their health, is failing to do its job, Young said.

"There is evidence of risks that they are refusing to recognize," he said.
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