This is Hacker News, so you should probably include a "/s" to indicate sarcasm, because otherwise you'll get a lot of people agreeing with you.

Exactly.

Asbestos has been banned for most usage in Canada since the early 1990's.

However... Canada continues to be one of the biggest exporter of Asbestos in global-trade.

Can't allow multi-national - and national corporations with local holdings to not turn a profit, right? After all - there are local jobs that are more important... (well, until the taxes collected on those activities are outweighed by the healthcare costs of the local population as they age...)

That’s why cyanide is allowed in adult fruit and smoothie drinks without safety thresholds while it was only recently banned via pressure for children’s products. Setting a maximum amount of cyanide cuts into profits so there’s a lobby against it.

These are the kind of well-sourced comments I come to Hacker News for