Trade unions and affected family members say it’s long past time to ban all asbestos products in Canada, calling them the country’s number one workplace killer. A tearful Michelle Cote, whose boiler maker father was diagnosed with deadly, asbestos-caused mesothelioma in 2014, told an Ottawa news conference that no one deserves to die this way.

Trade unions and affected family members say it’s long past time to ban all asbestos products in Canada, calling them the country’s number one workplace killer. A tearful Michelle Cote, whose boiler maker father was diagnosed with deadly, asbestos-caused mesothelioma in 2014, told an Ottawa news conference that no one deserves to die this way.