Montreal votes to end water fluoridation in West Island by 2025 [Video]

Montreal has voted to stop adding fluoride to tap water in six demerged West Island cities by 2025, a decision that has ignited backlash from local mayors and health experts.

We never asked. None of us. Certainly, Beaconsfield did not ask to remove fluoride from the water,” said Beaconsfield Mayor Georges Bourelle.

Only two of Montreal’s water treatment plants use fluoride Dorval and pointe-Claire.

Executive committee member responsible for water, Maja Vodanovic, said the latter needs to be renovated and that public works brought up the question of ending fluoridation.

“Because the infrastructure, the fluoride infrastructure was at the end of its life, they said, ‘well we just won’t renovate. We won’t do a new one, we’ll just get rid of it, and we’ll do as the rest of Montreal,’” she said.

at Thursday’s Agglomeration Council meeting, Vodanovic said Montreal officials voted unanimously against continuing to add fluoride to potable …