As a professional lawn care…

As a professional lawn care operator for over 30 years, I can say that there is a huge black market for home owners to take part in the use of non registered pesticides. Pesticides will only be safe in the hands of properly trained people.

I believe we should introduce an exemption for trained, certified / licensed, IPM accredited professionals to use pest control products as approved by Health Canada for the care of private and commercial lawns. This will raise the bar on protecting the environment, through healthy lawns and their associated benefits.