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How Does Your Province Rate When It Comes to COPD?

The information contained herein (by province and Canada as a whole), has been extracted from the Canadian Lung Association's, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD); a National Report Card, 2005. 

 How did YOUR province measure up?

Canada, Nationally Alberta British Columbia
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If you would like to download the entire national report card, it can be found here.

To find out who your MP is with complete contact info, all you need to do at this site is enter your postal code.

Find YOUR MP now! and ask what's being done....

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