Canada offers compensation for Agent Orange victims

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Vietnam News Agency

Canada offers compensation for Agent Orange victims

13/09/2007 -- 4:14 PM

Ha Noi (VNA) - Canada will offer a one-time payment of 20,000 CAD (close to 19,200 USD) to people who say their health was harmed by US military Agent Orange (AO) spray programmes at a base in eastern Canada 40 years ago, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said.

Roughly 4,500 people are expected to be eligible for the payment, at a total cost of 96 million CAD (92 million USD).

The US military tested Agent Orange, Agent Purple and several other powerful defoliants on a small section of the base in Gagetown, New Brunswick, over seven days in 1966 and 1967.

Canadian officials said it was the only time the powerful defoliants - widely used during the Viet Nam War - were sprayed in Canada.




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[LynnTheDem]

1. Thank you, Canada.