Canada Sprays Cancer-Linked Glyphosate from Helicopters Over Forests and Families

Canada Sprays Cancer-Linked Glyphosate from Helicopters Over Forests and Families

RAIR Foundation

Canada is dumping poison from the sky. On August 24th, RAIR Foundation USA filmed three Ontario women who are leading the charge to stop the government’s aerial spraying of glyphosate — better known as Roundup — across forests and communities that families depend on for food, water, and life itself.

Officials claim the chemical is needed to “manage” forests and protect young pine trees from competing vegetation. In reality, the spraying kills everything in its path — plants, wildlife, soil health — while exposing nearby towns to a toxin internationally linked to cancer, water contamination, and ecological collapse.

This is not forest management, it is chemical warfare against the land and the people who live on it.

Burns stressed that the government and its partners are presenting this spraying as lawful and responsible stewardship, when in reality, they have no sweeping authority to poison these lands. The public has been deliberately left ignorant of their property rights, creating the illusion of compliance. The Ministry of Natural Resources claims the practice protects forests, but in truth, it violates Ontario’s own Endangered Species Act and federal environmental protections. Glyphosate does not “manage” forests — it annihilates them, killing plants, animals, and habitats alike.

This is being done under the guise of environmental care, Burns warned, but in reality, it is part of a centralized agenda where bureaucrats and private corporations wield power over land that rightfully belongs to the people. Crown land is not government property — it is shared, lived on, and depended upon by citizens, and must never be treated as a chemical dumping ground.

Burns pointed to Quebec, where in 2001, citizens successfully forced a ban on aerial glyphosate spraying after massive public opposition. That decision not only safeguarded health and the environment, it also created new forestry jobs in manual management. Ontario could achieve the same — but only if citizens act.

Burns’ warnings were followed by young mother and environmental activist Charity Parisian, who explained how she stumbled into leadership. One night, after putting her four children to bed, she saw the Ministry’s announcement about spraying and went looking for a protest to join. Finding none, she created one herself. By morning, she had launched the “Stop the Spray in the Ottawa Valley” group, sent a barrage of emails, and begun organizing a demonstration outside the Ministry’s Pembroke office.

Armed with a background in environmental technology, Parisian dismantled the forestry company’s claim that glyphosate was needed to protect white pine saplings from berries and shrubs. This isn’t responsible forestry, she argued — it is plantation-style farming disguised as conservation. Worse still, chemicals won’t simply kill raspberries and blackberries, but will poison entire ecosystems, weaken soils, and leave behind tinder-dry ground primed for wildfires.

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