Campaign for Pesticide Reduction
What are other communities doing?
Over the last decade the number of municipal by-laws adopted across Canada has increased to a total of 71.
Municipalities of all sizes have passed various forms of pesticide by-laws. The largest is the City of Toronto with a population of 2.48 million and the smallest being Sainte- Paule, Québec with a population of 199 citizens.
When all the current regulations and by-laws come into full effect the total number of Canadians protected from unwanted exposure to synthetic lawn and garden pesticides will grow to over 11.5 million or approximately 36% of Canada's population, (based on 2001 Census).
The current full list of Private Property Pesticide By-laws in Canada is given here, (pdf, 28 KB).