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Article: CANADA: AGENT ORANGE SETTLEMENT COVERS LIMITED TIME FRAME.
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- Interpress Service
- Article date:
- September 20, 2007
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By Christopher Arsenault
HALIFAX, Canada, Sep. 19, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- A group of Canadian veterans received a compensation package last week due to their exposure to the toxic defoliant Agent Orange, but veterans' advocates say the reparations do not go nearly far enough.
Notorious for its devastating use by the U.S. in the Vietnam War, Agent Orange was tested and sprayed extensively in Canada by both the Canadian and U.S. militaries throughout the 1950s, '60s and '70s.
In 1966, Ken Dobbie and thousands of other young men spent summers hacking foliage soaked in Agent Orange while clearing forests at the Canadian Forces' Base Gagetown in the ...