WE RAISE OUR PAWS TO BRING FORTH URGENCY TO END THE CANADA COMMERCIAL SEAL HUNT — UNITED WE STAND FOR LIFE!
As members of Canadian society, and an animal rights not-for-profit incorporation, we have always believed that Canada has represented itself as a progressive nation — but such progression should not include sacrificing and inhumanely killing innocent life for making profit or products.
I am speaking and bringing to your attention of Canada’s Commercial Seal Hunt, or “Harvest” as even the Federal Fisheries Department has claimed it to be – a definition basically stating that this slaughter and treatment to be mere hunting and collection of commodities that can be used for humanity’s own personal & profit making gain such as fur, seal oil (health supplements) and aphrodisiacs etc.
It is truly a blemish upon the country, when its Government and Fisheries Department continues to defend the nature of such…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Done…
sickened beyond words that this horror continues..
Yes. Anything goes to support fishermen in the offseason. And yet, Trudeau corrected a person for using the word ‘mankind’ instead of ‘peoplekind’.
Signed. Been signing for years. I wonder how many have died in the meantime.
Are we getting the impression that it doesn’t matter which political party in in power for wildlife’s sake? I know I am.
I agree. The Democrats have been better in the past. But the big money behind the hunting industry speaks too loudly. I’m reading the new book by Andrew Loveridge. It’s about Cecil but also goes into the issues that face lions and other wildlife in Africa. Has a great chapter that deals with the SCI. Really ugly!
SCI really is an awful spectre in the background of a lot of hunting issues. I remember a court case with the USF&W about wolf delisting, or wolf taxonomy (I think it was about the unsettled issue about whether NE wolves are/were grey wolves or a subspecies, and why the USF&W wasn’t going to reintroduce them there), where a ‘friend of the court’ was listed as SCI. Ever since, I get the mental image of a spectre hovering in courtrooms. Blech!
So when the West says ‘how would you like wolves in your backyard’, we would, send them over, but the USF&W won’t let us have them.
Sorry to veer off topic like this, but I thought this was interesting. These theories have since been debunked – a wolf is a wolf is a wolf, according to most recent DNA studies, but USF&W refuses to acknowledge or accept it, and are influenced by the ranching and hunting industries. There are still areas in this country with very suitable habitat and located far enough away from humans where wolves could still be reintroduced. Preemptive strikes where wolves do not exist simple to keep them out is objectionable. I’ve given up on Colorado because they simply are too high to care, it seems.
With so much talk of collusion in our government lately, it’s bothersome that some collusion has and does go under the radar:
http://earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/proposed_removal_of_gray_wolves_endangered_status_a_case_study_in_the_polit/
I try to blot out the awful imagery by replacing it with the Canadian Fisheries minister getting a pie in the face by a seal hunt protester. 🙂 Ha!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/fisheries-minister-gets-pie-in-face-1.909670