One week ago I sent the mayor and all the city councilors an email in regards to the addition of hexafluorosilicic acid (fluoride) to the cities drinking water.

Here is the email that was sent:

Hello, my name is Terry Wilson.
I am a new resident of Hamilton, and my family has lived here for over ten years. I am writing you today because of something that I find quite disturbing.
The city of Hamilton is promoting that tap water is the clear choice, and that it is completely safe. But the city is still adding what is commonly known as fluoride
to the public water supply. What most people do not realize is that the "fluoride" that is being added to our water is really called hexafluorosilicic acid.
hexafluorosilicic acid is literally classified as a toxic waste, that is produced from the phosphate fertilizer industry. It is not a naturally occurring substance like your water reports state.

There is a very wide range of side effects that occurring from ingesting this substance. Just recently the 23rd scientific study linking fluoride exposure to lowered IQ in children. Among other professionals citing that there is now more evidence linking fluoride exposure to cancer, than there ever was with DDT. You can look at all of the scientific studies here: http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/

Water fluoridation is the only medical treatment in Canadian history, that has been implemented on a large scale, without the informed consent of the patients. To my
knowledge there has never been a public vote on the issue in Hamilton. In cities across Canada, who have never voted on it and now have. Barrie, Kitchener/Waterloo, and now Calgary (on the verge of a vote) have all now held votes, and the people voted it out.

The time for a vote on the issue of water fluoridation in Hamilton is long over due! I hope that you will support this, and the people of Hamilton will not have to enact the Ontario fluoridation act, to force a referendum.

No politician or bureaucrat in city hall or in Ottawa have the right to tell us what will or will not go into our bodies.

Thank you, and I will look forward to your response.
Terry Wilson


The first response that I received from city councilor Brad Clarke. Brad is himself against fluoride, and agreed to add a poll to his blog about the addition of it to our water supply. In the one day that his poll was posted, 85% percent of the voters checked off a box that said to completely remove all fluoride compounds from the water supply in Hamilton. If that was an election, it would have won in a "landslide" victory.

That one totally threw me off, but then I got the second response.

Hi Terry,

Thank you for your message regarding Fluoride in the water. This topic has been brought up in Council Meetings. As things come to light with respect to changes in the way tap water is being treated, the Council will make a public announcement.

I acknowlege your concerns, and will be recording your message.

The Mayor aprreciates hearing from residents on the many matters relating to City business.

Deanna Levy
Communications/Community Relations Administrator
Office of Mayor Bob Bratina

And the third was a short conversation with councilor Lloyd Ferguson.

Terry,
Our Medical Officer of Health has advised us it is the right thing to do. I am not a medical professional and therefore rely on her advise.

(Me)
I totally understand that! I am not a medical professional either. But when there is so many medical professionals, who oppose the practice, I think that it is in the best interests for the people of this great city to be given the chance to decide if they want it or not. I guess my real question is, would you support a public vote on the issue?

(Lloyd)
We had a long debate with public input two years ago and decided to stay with Fluoride. I know a number of medical doctors and dentist in Ancaster and all of them say Fluoride is the right thing to do.
Sorry I could not be more helpful.

The other twelve councilors have not replied at all.

This is very disturbing, but not new in the fight against fluoride. Although most of the population does not even know that it is being added to the water, or what it even is. And those who do know, (for the most part) all agree that we deserve a choice. Our elected officials do not seem to be interested in giving the people the
right to informed consent, or freedom of choice. They avoid the question like it is the plague, and when forced into the corner they will throw it of on to the head medical officer of health. Who of coarse fully supports it.

That is one doctor, out of the thousands in this country. Regardless if it is one doctor saying so, or every doctor in Canada saying the same thing. You still have the right to informed consent to any medical treatment!

The Canadian Awareness Network will not stop this battle until everyone in this great city gets that freedom to informed consent. These emails are only the start of what will probably be a long and hard fought battle!

After talking to, reading from, and watching reports from countless medical "professionals" promoting the practice of water fluoridation and condemning professionals and citizens who stand up against it . It is my time to say enough is enough!

We are consistently lied to about fluoride. Health Canada says that they do not mandate fluoridation, municipalities do. In turn the municipalities say that they go by the Health Canada recommendations. No one even wants to admit that they are responsible.

We get told by many scientists and health care "professionals" that water fluoridation is a cheap and effective measure to prevent tooth decay. Dr. Malcolm Lock the head medical officer of Brant county even went as far as telling me that it is for the poor people, that cannot afford toothpaste.

But here are graphs from two separate studies that so it is not effective at all.
The first is a comparison between fluoridated Vs non fluoridated countries, produced by the fluoride action network.

And the second graph is one I have used many times. It is from a study conducted by statistics Canada. It shows next to no difference between provinces that fluoridate and those who do not.

8 of the top 10 WORST CITIES FOR TEETH are fluoridated (America). The November 2010 issue of Men's Health magazine identified the following 10 cities for WORST TEETH:

1. St. Louis - Fluoridated since 1963
2. Philadelphia - Fluoridated since 1954
3. Newark (NJ) - Not fluoridated
4. Baltimore (MD) -Fluoridated
5. New Orleans (LA) - Fluoridated since 1974
6. Jackson, Mississippi - Fluoridated since 1969
7. Jersey City, New Jersey - Not fluoridated
8. Milwaukee (WI) - Fluoridated since 1953
9. Kansas City (MO) - Fluoridated since 1981
10. Dallas (TX) - Fluoridated since 1966

Health Canada promotes it as completely safe and says that the science showing anything different is "junk" science. Here is a few examples of that "junk" science

thanks to the meticulous research of Dr. Jennifer Luke from the University of Surrey in England - that the pineal gland is the primary target of fluoride accumulation within the body.
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As acknowledged by the U.S. National Toxicology Program there is a "biological plausibility" of a link between fluoride exposure and osteosarcoma. The biological plausibility centers around three facts: 1) Bone is the principal site of fluoride accumulation, particularly during the growth spurts of childhood; 2) Fluoride is a mutagen when present at sufficient concentrations, and 3) Fluoride can artificially stimulate the proliferation of bone cells (osteoblasts).
Source

When bone turnover occurs, the potential exists for immune system cells and stem cells to be exposed to concentrations of fluoride in the interstitial fluids of bone that are higher than would be found in serum.
Source

This list could go on and on! To see more please go to fluoridealert.org

In most cases, we are told that fluoride is a natural occurring mineral. Calcium fluoride is a naturally occurring mineral, that is true.

But in 90% of the cases it is Hexafluorosilicic acid and sodium silicofluorides used in water fluoridation. The only difference between the two, is one is a liquid (Hexafluorosilicic acid) and one is the powder form (silicofluorides).

Both are toxic waste from the aluminum and phosphate fertilizer industries. Not the pharmaceutical grade fluoride that is in your toothpaste.

And beyond even the health effects, the effectiveness, or its origins. There is our right to informed consent. According to the
Canadian medical protection association

"For consent to treatment to be considered valid, it must be an “informed” consent. The patient must have been given an adequate explanation about the nature of the proposed investigation or treatment and its anticipated outcome as well as the significant risks involved and alternatives available. The information must be such as will allow the patient to reach an informed decision. In situations where the patient is not mentally capable, the discussion must take place with the substitute decision maker."

Well I don't know about any of you, but I have never had a doctor or dentist explain why I need to drink fluoridated water, and had him/her explain what the possible side effects are. We have never even been given a chance to hold a municipal vote on the issue. Not when the program was first started and not until we the people make it happen. Kitchener/Waterloo is a perfect example of that. After months of public debates from both sides of the argument, the public voted it out of the water.

But it is not regarded as a medical treatment. It is classified a adding a nutrient to the water. That is how they bypass the informed consent. Nothing more then a little word play.

Either sticking a needle in your arm to give you a dangerous vaccine, or adding a so called nutrient to your water, they both have a medical purpose. Which makes them both a medical treatment!

We also are told that the tooth decay that fluoridation prevents saves the health care system untold amounts of money. What they don't mention is the cost of hip fractures, hyperthyroidism, cancer, and so on. Caused by fluoride.

To put it very simply and logically, fluoride is very dangerous, not effective, and costs the tax payers high amounts of money (adding it to the water costs $100,000 a year in the city of Hamilton alone, never mind the cost to the health care system). And on top of that we are consistently lied to about it.

It is time to say enough of the BS and just get it out! If we need it that badly a doctor or dentist can prescribe it, just like any other medication.

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Sodium Fluoride, Sodium Silica fluorides, and hexafluorosilicic acid are not natural occurring substances. They are by products of mainly the phosphate fertilizer industry, it literally is toxic waste.

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The side effects on human health range from Dental Fluorosis, Arthritis, Reproductive organ damage, Pineal Gland damage, Thyroid Gland, all the way up to bone cancer's.

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The research that is used to promote water fluoridation is outdated, and not available even in FIOA request in most cases.

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98% of European countries have banned water fluoridation because of the dangers.

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No matter how long fluoride has been in your city or towns water, We the people have never been asked about it. The right to informed consent of medical treatment has been thrown right out the window because of a simple case of word play.

We deserve a say in what goes into our bodies. And it is time to stand up and say enough is enough!