Fluoride question settled
Posted Apr 15, 2010 03:44:04 AM.
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Regional council has officially settled on the wording of a fluoride question that will appear on the ballot during the next municipal election.
Councillors voted 14-2 in favour of the question, should the region of Waterloo fluoridate your municipal water?
Councillor Jean Haalboom voted against it, saying it is misleading to leave out the word continue.
Delegate Stan Rektor says it should have contained the term hydrofluorosilic acid.
Without it, Rektor says voters will not know what he says is a damaging substance in fluoride.
Dentist Dr. Kerr Banduk says people don’t know what that word means.
And he says once the acid hits the water, it turns into fluoride immediately.
Voters will be asked if they want to keep it in their water on October 25th.
