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IDA Joins Worldwide Protest Against Canadian Seal Slaughter
Demo at Canadian Consulate Trade Office in SF, noon, 3/15/05
On Tuesday, March 15, IDA joined dozens of animal protection groups in a massive worldwide protest of the annual Canadian seal slaughter scheduled to begin just days from now. Every year, the Canadian Government sanctions the killing of 350,000 seals off the country's eastern shores, most of whom are just days or weeks old, and are shot, beaten, stabbed and often skinned alive. Many eyewitnesses have even seen hunters sadistically torturing seals with apparent pleasure and absolutely no regard for the animals' pain.
Demonstrations were held in twenty-eight countries, including four Canadian provinces. IDA organized protests outside of the Canadian consulates in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Portland, Ore. Dozens of demonstrators held signs, passed out leaflets and gathered petition signatures. IDA activists also delivered letters to consulate representatives condemning the carnage on behalf of our 85,000 members. Media coverage and public reaction to the demonstrations was very positive. We would like to thank all of those who came to the demonstrations for joining us in this powerful action against greed and cruelty.
What You Can Do
Tell the Canadian Government to end the annual seal slaughter.
Write or call:
Frank McKenna
Office of the Ambassador, Canada
Canadian Embassy
501 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20001
Tel: (202) 682-1740
Fax: (202) 682-7701 or (202) 682-7678
webmaster [at] canadianembassy.org
Demonstrations were held in twenty-eight countries, including four Canadian provinces. IDA organized protests outside of the Canadian consulates in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Portland, Ore. Dozens of demonstrators held signs, passed out leaflets and gathered petition signatures. IDA activists also delivered letters to consulate representatives condemning the carnage on behalf of our 85,000 members. Media coverage and public reaction to the demonstrations was very positive. We would like to thank all of those who came to the demonstrations for joining us in this powerful action against greed and cruelty.
What You Can Do
Tell the Canadian Government to end the annual seal slaughter.
Write or call:
Frank McKenna
Office of the Ambassador, Canada
Canadian Embassy
501 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20001
Tel: (202) 682-1740
Fax: (202) 682-7701 or (202) 682-7678
webmaster [at] canadianembassy.org
For more information:
http://www.idausa.org
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Canada seal hunt draws protests
Animal rights activists have been out on the ice, filming Canada's largest seal cull for more than 50 years.
The government is allowing more than 300,000 seals to be killed, arguing that the campaign is both ecologically sound and economically justified.
Protests helped end the hunting of young seals for their pelts off Canada's east coast 25 years ago.
"We think it is inherently inhumane," said a spokesman for Ifaw, the group which is monitoring the cull.
Sealers are out on the ice floes and islands off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador for the annual hunt.
Under new guidelines, most seals are meant to be shot and not clubbed to death in a bid to make the killing more humane.
Around 140,000 seals are expected to be slaughtered by the end of Tuesday.
International campaign
The BBC's Lee Carter in Toronto says the huge international campaign against the hunt seems to have caught the Canadians by surprise.
One campaigning group, the US-based Humane Society, has been taking full-page adverts in prominent US newspapers to urge a travel boycott against Canada.
Groups accuse officials of "attempting to scapegoat seals" for their own fisheries mismanagement.
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (Ifaw) says government guidelines on humane hunting methods are being ignored.
"To call it a hunt is a misnomer," spokesman Chris Cutter told BBC News Online.
"These are baby animals that haven't learnt to swim. It's like picking blueberries," he said.
"The major aim is to preserve pelts, not to kill humanely."
However, some of the major activist groups that targeted sealing in the past said they have other issues to address this year.
Greenpeace Canada is "not actively campaigning" against the hunt and is focusing on issues such as genetically modified foods and climate change, a spokesman said.
Fish stocks
The seal hunt in Newfoundland and Labrador went into decline 25 years ago, after images of hunters clubbing infant seals horrified TV viewers across the world.
The US banned imports of seal products in 1972 and the EU followed suit a decade later, with a ban on white pelt imports taken from the youngest babies.
As a result, the Canadian government reduced quotas for seal hunting to as low as 15,000 annually - mainly for meat and local handicraft. But with fur again in fashion, the hunt is back.
Canada increased the quotas last year, allowing a million seals to be killed over the space of three years.
Canadian Natural Resources Minister John Efford said many claims about the hunt were simply wrong.
He argued that the seal population was exploding - with an estimated 5.2 million harp seals in the North Atlantic at present - and commercial fish stocks were vanishing.
Mr Efford added that the cull was important for the local economy during a traditionally slow time of the year.
THE CULL
Up to 350,000 baby harp seals to be killed this season
Preliminary culls started at the beginning of April
2,500 men and 150 trawlers to gather for intensive 36-hour phase of cull on 12 April
Up to 10,000 seals to be killed per daylight hour
Killing of "whitecoat" seals - aged up to 12 days - banned
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/americas/3622539.stm
Published: 2004/04/13 15:41:02 GMT
Animal rights activists have been out on the ice, filming Canada's largest seal cull for more than 50 years.
The government is allowing more than 300,000 seals to be killed, arguing that the campaign is both ecologically sound and economically justified.
Protests helped end the hunting of young seals for their pelts off Canada's east coast 25 years ago.
"We think it is inherently inhumane," said a spokesman for Ifaw, the group which is monitoring the cull.
Sealers are out on the ice floes and islands off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador for the annual hunt.
Under new guidelines, most seals are meant to be shot and not clubbed to death in a bid to make the killing more humane.
Around 140,000 seals are expected to be slaughtered by the end of Tuesday.
International campaign
The BBC's Lee Carter in Toronto says the huge international campaign against the hunt seems to have caught the Canadians by surprise.
One campaigning group, the US-based Humane Society, has been taking full-page adverts in prominent US newspapers to urge a travel boycott against Canada.
Groups accuse officials of "attempting to scapegoat seals" for their own fisheries mismanagement.
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (Ifaw) says government guidelines on humane hunting methods are being ignored.
"To call it a hunt is a misnomer," spokesman Chris Cutter told BBC News Online.
"These are baby animals that haven't learnt to swim. It's like picking blueberries," he said.
"The major aim is to preserve pelts, not to kill humanely."
However, some of the major activist groups that targeted sealing in the past said they have other issues to address this year.
Greenpeace Canada is "not actively campaigning" against the hunt and is focusing on issues such as genetically modified foods and climate change, a spokesman said.
Fish stocks
The seal hunt in Newfoundland and Labrador went into decline 25 years ago, after images of hunters clubbing infant seals horrified TV viewers across the world.
The US banned imports of seal products in 1972 and the EU followed suit a decade later, with a ban on white pelt imports taken from the youngest babies.
As a result, the Canadian government reduced quotas for seal hunting to as low as 15,000 annually - mainly for meat and local handicraft. But with fur again in fashion, the hunt is back.
Canada increased the quotas last year, allowing a million seals to be killed over the space of three years.
Canadian Natural Resources Minister John Efford said many claims about the hunt were simply wrong.
He argued that the seal population was exploding - with an estimated 5.2 million harp seals in the North Atlantic at present - and commercial fish stocks were vanishing.
Mr Efford added that the cull was important for the local economy during a traditionally slow time of the year.
THE CULL
Up to 350,000 baby harp seals to be killed this season
Preliminary culls started at the beginning of April
2,500 men and 150 trawlers to gather for intensive 36-hour phase of cull on 12 April
Up to 10,000 seals to be killed per daylight hour
Killing of "whitecoat" seals - aged up to 12 days - banned
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/americas/3622539.stm
Published: 2004/04/13 15:41:02 GMT
Worldwide protests target Canada's seal hunt
CTV.ca News Staff
Protesters took to the streets in several Canadian cities and dozens of countries around the world Tuesday, in an international demonstration against the commercial seal hunt in Canada.
The Canadian rallies -- part of The International Day of Action Against the Canadian Seal Hunt -- were held in Halifax, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver.
They come just weeks before many hunters take to the ice floes for the hunt. The season actually runs from Nov. 15 until May 15, but most hunting is done in the spring.
About 30 people, carrying signs and chanting slogans, marched outside the Halifax-area office of federal Fisheries Minister Geoff Regan.
They tried to deliver letters and a petition to the minister's office, but found that the doors were locked.
Barry Crozier, who organized the protests, says he thinks Regan's officials deliberately avoided contact with the protestors.
In Toronto, about 150 protesters marched in a downtown square objecting to the seal hunt. About the same number turned out on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
The protesters are trying to call attention to the "cruel and needless slaughter of harp and hooded seals in Canada."
They claim fishermen on the East Coast will kill 300,000 harp seals between late March and the middle of May.
"Canada's commercial seal hunt is the largest and cruellest slaughter of marine mammals on earth," said Wayne Pacelle, president and chief executive officer of the Humane Society of the United States.
On the eve of the protests, retired French actress and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot had harsh words for Regan and Prime Minister Paul Martin.
"You are jerks!" she said, in a telephone interview with Sun Media.
"I wrote for years to all Canadian prime ministers, but it hasn't done anything to stop it. Nothing!''
The 70-year-old Bardot now walks with a cane and can't make a trip to Canada to join the protests -- a fact she told the newspaper that she regrets.
When Bardot visited Canada in 1976 to protest the seal hunt, almost 130,000 seals were killed.
Today, government quotas allow the hunting of 360,000 seals.
The government argues that the seal hunt is humane, and that it boosts the economy of coastal towns and villages where few other economic opportunities exist.
"I believe there is in excess of five million seals in the herd right now," Brian Underhill, a spokesman for Fisheries Minister Geoff Regan, told the Globe and Mail. "And that does provide an income for numerous families in areas where there's not too much in terms of economic activity."
Ottawa introduced a three-year seal management plan in 2003, that would allow fishermen to kill a total of 975,000 seals over that time period.
"DFO sets quotas at levels that ensure the health and abundance of seal herds," the website for Fisheries and Oceans Canada says.
With files from the Canadian Press
Wed. Mar. 16 2005 6:00 AM ET
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1110899554837_106308754/?hub=TopStories
CTV.ca News Staff
Protesters took to the streets in several Canadian cities and dozens of countries around the world Tuesday, in an international demonstration against the commercial seal hunt in Canada.
The Canadian rallies -- part of The International Day of Action Against the Canadian Seal Hunt -- were held in Halifax, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver.
They come just weeks before many hunters take to the ice floes for the hunt. The season actually runs from Nov. 15 until May 15, but most hunting is done in the spring.
About 30 people, carrying signs and chanting slogans, marched outside the Halifax-area office of federal Fisheries Minister Geoff Regan.
They tried to deliver letters and a petition to the minister's office, but found that the doors were locked.
Barry Crozier, who organized the protests, says he thinks Regan's officials deliberately avoided contact with the protestors.
In Toronto, about 150 protesters marched in a downtown square objecting to the seal hunt. About the same number turned out on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
The protesters are trying to call attention to the "cruel and needless slaughter of harp and hooded seals in Canada."
They claim fishermen on the East Coast will kill 300,000 harp seals between late March and the middle of May.
"Canada's commercial seal hunt is the largest and cruellest slaughter of marine mammals on earth," said Wayne Pacelle, president and chief executive officer of the Humane Society of the United States.
On the eve of the protests, retired French actress and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot had harsh words for Regan and Prime Minister Paul Martin.
"You are jerks!" she said, in a telephone interview with Sun Media.
"I wrote for years to all Canadian prime ministers, but it hasn't done anything to stop it. Nothing!''
The 70-year-old Bardot now walks with a cane and can't make a trip to Canada to join the protests -- a fact she told the newspaper that she regrets.
When Bardot visited Canada in 1976 to protest the seal hunt, almost 130,000 seals were killed.
Today, government quotas allow the hunting of 360,000 seals.
The government argues that the seal hunt is humane, and that it boosts the economy of coastal towns and villages where few other economic opportunities exist.
"I believe there is in excess of five million seals in the herd right now," Brian Underhill, a spokesman for Fisheries Minister Geoff Regan, told the Globe and Mail. "And that does provide an income for numerous families in areas where there's not too much in terms of economic activity."
Ottawa introduced a three-year seal management plan in 2003, that would allow fishermen to kill a total of 975,000 seals over that time period.
"DFO sets quotas at levels that ensure the health and abundance of seal herds," the website for Fisheries and Oceans Canada says.
With files from the Canadian Press
Wed. Mar. 16 2005 6:00 AM ET
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1110899554837_106308754/?hub=TopStories
Canada's seal hunt sparks protests, seafood boycott
CBC News
MONTREAL - The Humane Society of the United States is calling for an international boycott of all Canadian seafood products in an attempt to shut down the commercial seal hunt.
The society will kick off its campaign with an international day of action against the seal hunt next Tuesday. Protests will be held in front of Canadian consulates and embassies in more than 20 countries.
Rebecca Aldworth, director of Canadian wildlife issues for the Humane Society, says the hunt is cruel and not properly regulated.
She also says interest in seal fur is growing, pointing to rising prices for pelts as evidence. Aldworth says that's why the group decided to try a new tactic after years of unsuccessfully lobbying the Canadian government to stop the seal hunt.
"We're asking Americans and people around the world not to buy Canadian fish and seafood products, which will be clearly labelled as that, until Canada has ended its commercial seal hunt for good," she said from her office in Montreal.
Aldworth says her group is not opposed to subsistence hunting by aboriginals.
Major environmental and animal protection groups in Canada, the U.S. and Europe say they'll join the boycott.
Rallies against the seal hunt are planned for Vancouver, Ottawa, Toronto and Halifax on March 15. A Kelowna rally is scheduled for this Saturday.
The Sea Shepherd Society, whose ship Farley Mowat was forced into Port Aux Basques, Nfld., last Sunday, is backing the Vancouver rally.
The 50-metre vessel left Newfoundland Thursday, headed for dry-dock in Lunenburg, N.S.
* MARCH 7, 2005: Coast guard guides leaky conservation ship into port
A small hole in the hull has been temporarily repaired. The first officer says they expect to arrive in Lunenburg on Saturday.
The Farley Mowat was headed for the Magdalen Islands to document the annual seal hunt when it ran into trouble.
Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:31:44 EST
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/03/11/sealhunt-050311.html
CBC News
MONTREAL - The Humane Society of the United States is calling for an international boycott of all Canadian seafood products in an attempt to shut down the commercial seal hunt.
The society will kick off its campaign with an international day of action against the seal hunt next Tuesday. Protests will be held in front of Canadian consulates and embassies in more than 20 countries.
Rebecca Aldworth, director of Canadian wildlife issues for the Humane Society, says the hunt is cruel and not properly regulated.
She also says interest in seal fur is growing, pointing to rising prices for pelts as evidence. Aldworth says that's why the group decided to try a new tactic after years of unsuccessfully lobbying the Canadian government to stop the seal hunt.
"We're asking Americans and people around the world not to buy Canadian fish and seafood products, which will be clearly labelled as that, until Canada has ended its commercial seal hunt for good," she said from her office in Montreal.
Aldworth says her group is not opposed to subsistence hunting by aboriginals.
Major environmental and animal protection groups in Canada, the U.S. and Europe say they'll join the boycott.
Rallies against the seal hunt are planned for Vancouver, Ottawa, Toronto and Halifax on March 15. A Kelowna rally is scheduled for this Saturday.
The Sea Shepherd Society, whose ship Farley Mowat was forced into Port Aux Basques, Nfld., last Sunday, is backing the Vancouver rally.
The 50-metre vessel left Newfoundland Thursday, headed for dry-dock in Lunenburg, N.S.
* MARCH 7, 2005: Coast guard guides leaky conservation ship into port
A small hole in the hull has been temporarily repaired. The first officer says they expect to arrive in Lunenburg on Saturday.
The Farley Mowat was headed for the Magdalen Islands to document the annual seal hunt when it ran into trouble.
Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:31:44 EST
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/03/11/sealhunt-050311.html
Seal hunt protests held in 30 countries
CBC News
OTTAWA - Canada's annual seal hunt begins this month and once again, it's sparking controversy around the world.
A campaign against the hunt got underway on Tuesday, organized by the U.S. Humane Society.
An anti-seal hunt protester holds a sign against the hunt while an Inuit woman wearing a sealskin coat promotes their livelihood with other people from Nunavut. (CP photo)
In Halifax, protesters gathered outside the constituency office of federal Fisheries Minister Geoff Regan. They tried to deliver some letters and a petition. But the doors were locked.
Regan has said the seal hunt is conducted in a humane and regulated manner.
In Toronto about 150 protesters marched in a downtown square objecting to the seal hunt. About the same number turned out on Parliament Hill.
But the protests weren't only in Canada.
In Paris, people demonstrated in front of the Canadian Embassy, with the activists calling for a boycott of Canadian seafood if the hunt is not stopped.
Protests were planned to take place in almost 40 cities in 30 countries.
Rebecca Aldworth, the director of Canadian wildlife issues for the Humane Society, told CBC News last week that the hunt is cruel and not properly regulated. She also says interest in seal fur is growing and she points to rising prices for pelts as proof.
That's why the group decided to try a new tactic after years of unsuccessful lobbying of the Canadian government to stop the seal hunt.
"We're asking Americans and people around the world not to buy Canadian fish and seafood products, which will be clearly labelled as that, until Canada has ended its commercial seal hunt for good," she said from her office in Montreal.
Aldworth says her group is not opposed to subsistence hunting by aboriginals.
But Nunavut Environment Minister Olayuk Akesuk says efforts to shut down the commercial seal hunt will hurt people in the North. Akesuk says the sale of seal pelts helps Inuit hunters support their families.
Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:22:56 EST
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/03/15/sealhunt-050315.html
CBC News
OTTAWA - Canada's annual seal hunt begins this month and once again, it's sparking controversy around the world.
A campaign against the hunt got underway on Tuesday, organized by the U.S. Humane Society.
An anti-seal hunt protester holds a sign against the hunt while an Inuit woman wearing a sealskin coat promotes their livelihood with other people from Nunavut. (CP photo)
In Halifax, protesters gathered outside the constituency office of federal Fisheries Minister Geoff Regan. They tried to deliver some letters and a petition. But the doors were locked.
Regan has said the seal hunt is conducted in a humane and regulated manner.
In Toronto about 150 protesters marched in a downtown square objecting to the seal hunt. About the same number turned out on Parliament Hill.
But the protests weren't only in Canada.
In Paris, people demonstrated in front of the Canadian Embassy, with the activists calling for a boycott of Canadian seafood if the hunt is not stopped.
Protests were planned to take place in almost 40 cities in 30 countries.
Rebecca Aldworth, the director of Canadian wildlife issues for the Humane Society, told CBC News last week that the hunt is cruel and not properly regulated. She also says interest in seal fur is growing and she points to rising prices for pelts as proof.
That's why the group decided to try a new tactic after years of unsuccessful lobbying of the Canadian government to stop the seal hunt.
"We're asking Americans and people around the world not to buy Canadian fish and seafood products, which will be clearly labelled as that, until Canada has ended its commercial seal hunt for good," she said from her office in Montreal.
Aldworth says her group is not opposed to subsistence hunting by aboriginals.
But Nunavut Environment Minister Olayuk Akesuk says efforts to shut down the commercial seal hunt will hurt people in the North. Akesuk says the sale of seal pelts helps Inuit hunters support their families.
Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:22:56 EST
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/03/15/sealhunt-050315.html
I will make a few points
1)The innuits have special status in Canada, anyway.For ex. they do not pay taxes as the rest of Canadians.
2) They seem very reticent to adopt the Canadian way of living, they like their tradition,i.e.hunting for a living instead of working in a factory,or computer company.But in the same time they send mixt messages. Their tradition seems to be dependent on white peoples agenda?(since whites are the buyers of the pelts). Before the settlers came to Canada, how could they manage to live? Those times, there weren't any whites looking for seal products, how come they did not have a problem with that then??!!! How come they were happy just using the pelts for their own needs, then, but they are not happy ourdays? We were always told that they hunt for subsistence , but is this anymore true??? It seems to me that when they sell fur to others we can call it sell for profit ,not for their basic needs such as clothing. In addition, their hunting methods are the same as those of the sealers, i.e. grossly inhumane.And they are allowed to kill and (have no shame to do it) endangered species such as the whales,so where is their so called "protect the nature approach"???!! . Moreover, nobody(from the gvt) really cares to count how many seals are killed by innuits, but why should the gvt care when the gvt wants to see all seals wiped out????!!!! I do not feel sorry for either whites or innuits, they are all careless, selfish, brutal killers. And it is not right that my tax money is subsidizing an industry that I hate.People should have the right to decide how their money are spent
1)The innuits have special status in Canada, anyway.For ex. they do not pay taxes as the rest of Canadians.
2) They seem very reticent to adopt the Canadian way of living, they like their tradition,i.e.hunting for a living instead of working in a factory,or computer company.But in the same time they send mixt messages. Their tradition seems to be dependent on white peoples agenda?(since whites are the buyers of the pelts). Before the settlers came to Canada, how could they manage to live? Those times, there weren't any whites looking for seal products, how come they did not have a problem with that then??!!! How come they were happy just using the pelts for their own needs, then, but they are not happy ourdays? We were always told that they hunt for subsistence , but is this anymore true??? It seems to me that when they sell fur to others we can call it sell for profit ,not for their basic needs such as clothing. In addition, their hunting methods are the same as those of the sealers, i.e. grossly inhumane.And they are allowed to kill and (have no shame to do it) endangered species such as the whales,so where is their so called "protect the nature approach"???!! . Moreover, nobody(from the gvt) really cares to count how many seals are killed by innuits, but why should the gvt care when the gvt wants to see all seals wiped out????!!!! I do not feel sorry for either whites or innuits, they are all careless, selfish, brutal killers. And it is not right that my tax money is subsidizing an industry that I hate.People should have the right to decide how their money are spent
I will make a few points
1)The innuits have special status in Canada, anyway.For ex. they do not pay taxes as the rest of Canadians.
2) They seem very reticent to adopt the Canadian way of living, they like their tradition,i.e.hunting for a living instead of working in a factory,or computer company.But in the same time they send mixt messages. Their tradition seems to be dependent on white peoples agenda?(since whites are the buyers of the pelts). Before the settlers came to Canada, how could they manage to live? Those times, there weren't any whites looking for seal products, how come they did not have a problem with that then??!!! How come they were happy just using the pelts for their own needs, then, but they are not happy ourdays? We were always told that they hunt for subsistence , but is this anymore true??? It seems to me that when they sell fur to others we can call it sell for profit ,not for their basic needs such as clothing. In addition, their hunting methods are the same as those of the sealers, i.e. grossly inhumane.And they are allowed to kill and (have no shame to do it) endangered species such as the whales,so where is their so called "protect the nature approach"???!! . Moreover, nobody(from the gvt) really cares to count how many seals are killed by innuits, but why should the gvt care when the gvt wants to see all seals wiped out????!!!! I do not feel sorry for either whites or innuits, they are all careless, selfish, brutal killers. And it is not right that my tax money is subsidizing an industry that I hate.People should have the right to decide how their money are spent
1)The innuits have special status in Canada, anyway.For ex. they do not pay taxes as the rest of Canadians.
2) They seem very reticent to adopt the Canadian way of living, they like their tradition,i.e.hunting for a living instead of working in a factory,or computer company.But in the same time they send mixt messages. Their tradition seems to be dependent on white peoples agenda?(since whites are the buyers of the pelts). Before the settlers came to Canada, how could they manage to live? Those times, there weren't any whites looking for seal products, how come they did not have a problem with that then??!!! How come they were happy just using the pelts for their own needs, then, but they are not happy ourdays? We were always told that they hunt for subsistence , but is this anymore true??? It seems to me that when they sell fur to others we can call it sell for profit ,not for their basic needs such as clothing. In addition, their hunting methods are the same as those of the sealers, i.e. grossly inhumane.And they are allowed to kill and (have no shame to do it) endangered species such as the whales,so where is their so called "protect the nature approach"???!! . Moreover, nobody(from the gvt) really cares to count how many seals are killed by innuits, but why should the gvt care when the gvt wants to see all seals wiped out????!!!! I do not feel sorry for either whites or innuits, they are all careless, selfish, brutal killers. And it is not right that my tax money is subsidizing an industry that I hate.People should have the right to decide how their money are spent
I am glad to see that the boats are sinking. And the fools who partake in this horrific activity lose all of thier investment and have the crap scared out of them. I cant believe that so called civilized human beings would continue to support this industry. I am a resident of one of the so called have provinces who would like to think I could wish the people of the area no harm. But this is not the case any more. There is more harm done to the reputation of the Country through this spectical than all of our idiot polititions can do in a lifetime. I shall not be visiting this region, as had been planned this summer nor would I ever again support the area as a destination for any business activities. Smarten up and find a sustainable, less cruel ecconomic activity to keep you busy, and I will continue to pay the taxes that will help support your desire to remain in the region. Otherwise, the deal will be off at some point in time for a considerable contingency of the Canadian population. I am sick of being dragged through the mud, as a Canadian,over this shameful activity.
I hope I'm cute enough to save when I'm starving/freezing on the fucking street. Most aren't aparently...
OK, before I attack you let me catch my breath, I PAY MY FRIKKEN TAXES!!!! Just like any other Canadian - you'd know that if you maybe readABOUT NUNAVUT! MY DAD is a hunter, a professional INUK hunter, he does not slaughter ANY animal, and if anyone around here ever did, we'd all know about it and it would be shamful. We are not confused about our hunting rights - see Nunavut Land Claims Agreement! OK, now before all the white folk decided to ruin my gramdparents lives, by infesting our land with WHITES culture. YES this was just part of surviving on the land, now WE HAVE TO SURVIVE your economy, we did not choose to live like your people we were forced, now your trying to force us to stop hunting our own wildlife that we have preserved for sooo long, an mammal that is NOT ENDANGERED in Nunavut. Get off your high horse, you know the animals YOU CAGE and feed than KILL for supper !! Next time you want to express your uneducated opinion, don't bother - your only sending a bad message to the youth! I hope that you find some information so that you can better understand THINGS THAT ARE DIFFERENT IN THE WORLD - and rememeber we are all DIFFERENT and we have to accept WHITE life, so ACCEPT others as well.
INUUYUNGA!!!!!
INUUYUNGA!!!!!
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