Canada to ban mercury products, CFL’s get a pass « The Daily Bayonet

Canada’s federal government has announced it is to ban many products that contain mercury, including thermometers.

This is the same federal government that banned the incandescent light bulb in favor of compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL’s).

One of the few products to escape the new mercury ban is CFL light bulbs. To ban mercury in most products while legislating every home in Canada must use mercury-laden CFL’s is the kind of logic only a government could love.