I see that there are numerous raving loonies spinning this into a political issue. Waste of time.

Last year an estimated 269,000 people died in Canada from all causes. A third died from heart disease, another third from cancer. The rest died as a result of accidents, suicide, murder, falling out of bed, etc.

Reducing the number that die from complications caused by air pollution is not going to change things much. We will still die from something.