Canada to Pay Victims of Agent Orange

Canada will give a one-time payment of $19,200 to people who say their health was harmed by U.S. military Agent Orange spray programs at a base in eastern Canada 40 years ago, the defense minister said Wednesday. The U.S. military tested Agent Orange, Agent Purple and several other powerful defoliants on a small section of the base in Gagetown, New Brunswick, over seven days in 1966 and 1967. Canadian officials said it was the only time the powerful defoliants - widely used during the Vietnam War - were sprayed in Canada. Vietnam has said U.S. aircraft sprayed about 21 million gallons of defoliant, mostly Agent Orange, over the South... more