[miniwark]

What i do not understand in this case, is why politics are involved in this ?

Why do the fact than a local government changed from Conservative to Liberal, did have an impact on the story ?

Either a case must be opened or closed, must be decided by doctors & researchers alone, not because of politics.

[trod1234]

> What I do not understand in this case is why politics are involved?

This is a rural area with a lot of forest. The forestry service uses high concentrations of glyphosate dumped from helicopters to thin the forest.

The forestry service, and its use of glyphosphate is government, and with any government sponsored issue politics will make or break some politician's day.

The fact of the matter is, it doesn't matter that tests sampled at points show glyphosphate levels are well under the point where adverse risks occurred in the labs.

It is possible the chemicals are inducing toxins in microflora that are novel which then cause these issues. Regenesis had such an episodal plotline with fungal spores.

It is also equally possible that the safety testing didn't properly conform to standards, where adverse effects are found at much lower levels than advertised.

The cluster areas according to some news outlets seem correlated to the aerial spraying which is why there's such a push to find out what's going on, while the politicians at higher levels don't want to touch it with a ten foot pole.

[itsoktocry]

>This is a rural area with a lot of forest. The forestry service uses high concentrations of glyphosate dumped from helicopters to thin the forest.

Moncton is not a "rural area with a lot of forest".

[xattt]

The forest is essentially “a cow’s fart and two shakes of a lamb’s tale” away from Moncton in a 20 km radius from downtown.

[pjc50]

Anything public ends up as political. Whether effort is spent on this or not is a question of money, and as always people have to advocate for their own health. Being alive is a political issue.

If it turns out to be some sort of public health issue such as use of toxins in industry, that's extremely political as well.

[newsclues]

The province is largely dominated by one family (Irving’s), and its possible that the government is unwilling to look into the issue.

[rfwhyte]

This just baseless conjecture, and even somewhat conspiracy-theory adjacent, but my best guess is one of the Irving families' companies is somehow involved here.

The Irving's, if you don't know, are one of the richest families in Canada, and effectively own the province of New Brunswick and run it like their own personal fiefdom. They are also heavily connected to both the Federal and Provincial conservative parties (And the Liberals too honestly), so I would assuage a guess that they had something to do with squashing the former investigation as they knew they were somehow culpable and used their cronies in the government to protect them from any potential liability.

Again, this is all just baseless conjecture, but it feels like at least a potentially reasonable explanation here, as it would be far from the first time billionaires used their wealth and political connections to kill an investigation into their own malfeasance.