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Media Release: Take Action on Radon!
Media Release
Ask Finance Minister Joe Oliver, Health Minister Rona Ambrose, and Your MP to Support a Tax Credit for Radon Remediation
It’s Radon Action Month
Background:
Giving credit where it’s due, the federal government has taken important steps to help reduce radon-induced lung cancer. Since 2007 under the National Radon Program, the federal government has:
We think there is a logical next step – a tax credit for radon remediation.
Through our work with the Green Budget Coalition, we have recommended that the federal government amend the Income Tax Act to provide a tax credit to homeowners incurring costs for radon remediation and, consequently, to increase public awareness about a serious issue.
Please help this effort by writing to Finance Minister Joe Oliver (reach him here), Health Minister Rona Ambrose (reach her here), and to your MP (find your MP). Ask them to support the Green Budget Coalition call for a radon remediation tax credit.
Thanks!
Green Budget Coalition Recommendations for Budget 2015 (page 50 for the radon recommendation).
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For more information:
Kathleen Cooper, Senior Researcher, CELA 705-341-2488 kcooper@cela.ca
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