Nearly 3,000 Canadians have signed a petition asking Ottawa to hit pause on a planned update to the country’s regulatory framework for cell towers.
Canadians for Safe Technology (C4ST), a non-profit group concerned about the health impact of wireless technology, launched the initiative to prevent policy changes they worry will “weaken” municipal authority, “reduce transparency,” and hand over cell tower siting decisions to the telecommunications industry.
“It appears the industry has handed ISED (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) a shopping list of all the things they want, and ISED has done just that,” said Frank Clegg, the group’s chairman, in an interview.
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