--- title: "Doug Ford: End the “Rain of Death”" description: Email Doug Ford to end glyphosate spraying. Protect the environment, Indigenous rights, and the health of Ontarians. image: https://act.greenpeace.ca/hubfs/AirplaneView-HerbicideSpray3.jpg --- [![Greenpeace](https://act.greenpeace.ca/hubfs/raw_assets/public/anseo_greenpeace_landing_page_theme/assets/gp-logo.svg)](https://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en) En [Fr](https://act.greenpeace.ca/fr-ca/fin-a-la-pulverisation-de-glyphosate-en-ontario) # Doug Ford: End the “Rain of Death” ## Stop glyphosate from killing forests Every summer, helicopters fly over recently logged forests in Canada, spraying glyphosate herbicide over the landscape. The goal? **To wipe out almost all trees except for a few species valued for the logging industry**. **Glyphosate — the main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup —** **poisons the land and disrupts the balance of forests**. \[1\] Diverse ecosystems that serve the needs of First Nations, local communities and countless plants, animals and insects, are turned into near monocultures that serve one need: **a logging company’s** **cheapest way to turn profit**. In Ontario, First Nations have been calling for an end to glyphosate spraying for decades. Groups like the TEK Elders have been sounding the alarm on **plummeting numbers of beaver, porcupine, birds, and bees**. \[2\] The widespread changes in the forest impact First Nations’ relationship with their traditional territories.  **Yet Premier Doug Ford is refusing to listen,** once again choosing to put industry profits over the environment, Indigenous rights, and the health of Ontarians. **Spraying Ontario’s precious forests with glyphosate is completely unnecessary.** Quebec banned all herbicides for forestry in 2001, and Ontario could easily follow and set the example for other Canadian provinces. \[3\] **United, we have the power to stop “the rain of death”.** Ontario’s forests are already in terrible shape after repeated attacks by the Ford government. \[4\] **Let’s push Doug Ford to ban glyphosate spraying today!** 1. [https://rabble.ca/news/2021/05/stopping-rain-death-canadas-forests](https://rabble.ca/news/2021/05/stopping-rain-death-canadas-forests) 2. [http://tekelders.weebly.com/position-paper.html](http://tekelders.weebly.com/position-paper.html) 3. [https://mern.gouv.qc.ca/english/publications/forest/publications/Roy-A.pdf](https://mern.gouv.qc.ca/english/publications/forest/publications/Roy-A.pdf) 4. [https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/06/30/news/ontario-extends-logging-industry-exemption-endangered-species-law](https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/06/30/news/ontario-extends-logging-industry-exemption-endangered-species-law)   Friend, thank you for signing the petition! Will you help us get the word out to make this campaign even stronger by sharing the petition with your network? #### Thanks for sharing, Friend! 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