Two coroners want Quebec to change the law regarding pool security.

They are demanding all pools across the province be enclosed by a fence regardless of when the pool was constructed.

Current law says new pools must be surrounded by a fence, but pools built before the law was passed in 2010 are exempt.

Some municipalities have bylaws insisting a yard containing an older pool must have a fence, but not a second fence around the pool itself.

The recommendations come after the drowning deaths of three-year-olds in Magog and Saint Georges.

Nathan Lessard-Hamel was playing hide and seek at a cottage in Magog on Sept. 1, 2012, when he crawled through a gap under a fence and fell into a pool where he drowned.

Emile Pouiln died on July 11, 2013 when he drowned in his family's pool while his mother thought he was playing with other children in the house.

In both cases the pools were built before the 2010 pool safety law and so are not required to have a separate child-proof fence.

Coroners Andrée Kronstrom et Philippe Nobécourt said these deaths are similar to the drowning death of a two-year-old investigated by coroner Denyse Langelier, who made the same fencing recommendation in January.

The coroners also want to see Magog and Saint Georges act without waiting for the province, and to alter municipal bylaws to require fences around older pools.