Proceedings of the Special Senate Committee on Bill C-110, Jan. 25, 1996, parl.gc.ca

Little joke about referenda and fluoridation from Canadian senator, Sharon Carstairs:

“Professor McEvoy, your discussion of the referendum in Ireland caused me a memory flashback of trying to accomplish the fluoridation of water in Calgary. We had five referenda; we lost them all.  We went into all of them thinking that we would win, but in the last few days of the civic election campaign, there would always be a massive leaflet drop into every home talking about how rats died of fluoride. Everybody would go to the polls the next day and vote against it. Apparently, it finally passed; it must be because I left Calgary.”

Har har.  Six times a charm!   But it means forced medication for those who do not want it – even if the referendum was eventually won by a majority.

If fluoridation is just about tooth decay, why not have referenda on all issues ?   Because it’s not about tooth decay.

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