Asbestosis

Thanks to health and safety regulations, the House of Commons maintenance department sends out mass emails every time they are doing asbestos related work on the hill so we can all be paranoid about it. This wouldn't be interesting in and of itself, except for the fact that I get about three of these asbestos emails every day. That's a ton of asbestos related work done every day, which makes me wonder how much asbestos is in this place? We've known the perils of asbestos for years, and if we've been ripping it out three times a day for a decade or more now, the only logical explination is that Canada's seat of government was constructed out of solid asbestos. Makes sense; the place burns down once you'd want to keep it from happening again. Hence all the stone and, of course, incredible amounts of asbestos.

I think my lungs hurt.