Michel Gaudet
Michel Gaudet has worked on environmental health issues for close to thirty years. Most importantly, he played a key role in municipal and provincial legislation on pesticides. He is one of the founding members of the Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (CAP), founded in 1999, and a founding member, Vice-President and Executive Director of both the Environmental Health Association of Canada and the Environmental Health Association of Québec. He also serves as Acting President of the Confédération des organismes de personnes handicapées du Québec (COPHAN).
His work with CAP included delivering conferences to the general public and municipalities, including lawn care workers. He worked closely with the Ministry of Environment Quebec for legislation on pesticides and was implicated in the Pesticide Code of Quebec, which banned 22 pesticide active ingredients from Quebec, which were contained in hundreds of products which were banned for sale in Quebec and provided protection to the general public.
In 2012 he collaborated with the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), TELUQ and SAC of UQAM to develop a project on the biological, social and legal aspects of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity entitled ‘When the environment makes you ill: Need to understand, need to act’. He has been trained by the University of Québec in Montreal (UQAM) to deliver workshops on Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and has given many workshops on this project in more than ten regions of Quebec. He is currently organizing online workshops, which will commence shortly and which will allow participation from anywhere in the world. He is also part of the federally funded Empowering Community and Removal of Barriers (ECRoB) project, delivering workshops in French across Canada on Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.
Presently, his work with the Environmental Health Association of Québec puts him in contact with people who are disabled with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. He helps them manage their condition by providing ecological solutions for everyday living. Michel works closely with expert physicians at the environmental health clinic at the University of Toronto, and other expert physicians and scientists.
He has also participated as a speaker in many conferences in the United States and Canada.
His favourite activities are organic gardening, reading, music, nature, and statistics.