Montreal plans to stop adding fluoride to West Island tap water in 2025 [Video]

The West Island is one of the few places in Quebec that adds fluoride to the drinking water, but the City of Montreal plans to phase that out by 2025, and some in the community are upset.

While most of the island doesn’t add fluoride to its water, the cities of Pointe-Claire, Beaconsfield, Kirkland, Baie-d’Urfé, Dollard-Des-Ormeaux and Dorval do.

Coun. Maja Vodanovic, who’s in charge of water infrastructure, says drinking water isn’t the best way to administer fluoride.

“We consume less than 1 per cent of the water. We produce the rest of the water we wash cars with, we take showers, we wash dishes, we .. water our garden and all of that would have fluoride in it,” she said.

“It is the most toxic chemical right now at the plant that you have to have a lot of precautions in order to use it. So just for health …