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One city councillor is hoping for open minds from her colleagues as she brings forth a notice of motion requesting approval for a study on water fluoridation.

Coun. Diane Colley-Urquhart will bring forth at Monday’s council meeting the same notice of motion she did in 2016, requesting a study be conducted by the University of Calgary’s O’Brien Institute for Public Health examining fluoridation in water.

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“I voted in 2011 to take fluoride out . . . It had been in (water) for a while and there was really no evidence at that time to say, ‘well, is it going to cause harm by taking it out?’ ” she said.

“I met with executives and administration at Alberta Health right after that election in 2013 and I said, ‘if you guys go and do some research on the impact removing it will have, has had, then I’m open-minded to bringing it forward again,’ which I did.”

After the city voted in 2012 to remove fluoride from its public water supply, the number of children with tooth decay rose from 225 in 2013 to 745 in 2015, Colley-Urquhart’s notice of motion states.