Can The Threat Of Personal Liability Stop Fluoridation?

The excessively broad risk of personal liability for municipal councillors and staff in the Ontario Safe Drinking Water Act was supposed to improve public health and safety, but could it do the opposite, by frightening individuals into making poor public policy decisions? Opponents of fluoridation have started to threaten councillors with personal liability for fluoridated water, in the hope of changing municipal policy on water treatment.  The province created this problem, and they should fix it.

For example, a group called Concerned Residents of Peel to End Fluoridation recently told Peel Region councillors that fluoridated water creates a significant health risk for which they could be personally liable. The group claims that fluoridation of drinking water violates: