Atlantic Canada's MP Greg Thompson, the Conservative Health Critic, put forward Bill C-416, the EI Bill, and it went to first this past February 2000. Doctors are taught Environmental Medicine through the American Academy of Environmental Medicine which offers American Accreditation Council Continuing Medical Education accredited courses.
MCS reactions are, in some ways, like allergy reactions.
Both are prevented through the avoidance of triggering substances. Quite the contrary is true. In 1986 Judge George Thompson was appointed by the Ministry of Health of Ontario to study this emerging and rapidly increasing phenomenon. Last year leading Canadian and American researchers and doctors developed the MCS Consensus Definition which was published in a peer review journal. There are over 1,200 doctors who are practising Environmental Medicine in the USA and there are a proportionate number of these specialists practising here in Canada.