C. Hervieux-Payette dit aux Européens...

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La sénatrice Céline Hervieux-Payette dit aux Européens que la chasse au phoque ne les regardent pas... qu'ils se mêlent de leurs affaires
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Quebec senator tells Europeans to mind their own business about seal hunt

By The Canadian Press
Sat. Mar 7 - 4:46 AM


ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — A Liberal senator from Quebec believes European
parliamentarians should be more concerned with the current economic crisis and
the state of the world banking system than with seals in Canada.

Celine Hervieux-Payette and provincial Fisheries Minister Tom Hedderson were in
New Harbour, N.L., on Friday for a sealers’ information session.

"Why are European parliamentarians going in that direction?" asked
Hervieux-Payette.
"They don’t have anything to lose. They don’t have a sealer in their own
country. I asked them, ‘Why don’t you mind your own business and we’ll mind our
own business?’ "But they get a lot of pressure.".

On Monday, the commercial seal hunt suffered another blow when a European
Parliament committee voted 25-7 to endorse a bill that would impose a tight ban
on the import of all seal products to the European Union.

Hervieux-Payette was in the province to learn more about the sealing industry.

Quebec’s Iles de la Madeleine has a small seal quota and the senator said she is
looking forward to working with Hedderson and officials from Newfoundland to
defend the hunt.

"I was receiving e-mails from Americans who were threatening to boycott seafood
in Canada, tourism in Canada, and of course accusing our people of being
barbarians," she said.

"You understand, I could not tolerate that kind of accusation.

"I know that we are a country of high standards. I defended the seal hunters
because I feel it’s not an industry that has the means to defend itself to the
millions of dollars in the animal rights movement. And, I must say, the word
‘rights’ in this case is a little bit bugging me. I don’t know what rights they
have over our people."

Last week, Ontario Senator Mac Harb pledged in a letter to his colleagues to
seek amendments to the Fisheries Act to effectively end the commercial seal
hunt.

His anti-sealing bill was tabled in the Senate on Tuesday but didn’t have a
seconder so it wasn’t debated. "He came up with a rationale that doesn’t make
sense, not any more than the Europeans with their rationale," Hervieux-Payette
said.

If the EU bill passes, this province will suffer, Hedderson said.

"It’s going to slow us down, I would say," he said, adding there are still good
markets for seal products in China and Russia.

Hedderson said the province is pushing the federal government to take immediate
action and challenge such a ban to the World Trade Organization "so at least we
can push back and, hopefully, soften up the resistance with the EU countries
with regards to this particular issue."

"As well, we’re exploring other ways in which we can make the markets more
effective," Hedderson said.

Figures from the provincial government put the landed value of the annual seal
hunt at $13 million.

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/1110044.html

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Ils vont la détester encore plus!

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On a comme notre Sarah Palin a nous autres, maintenant...

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Cath a écrit:

On a comme notre Sarah Palin a nous autres, maintenant...

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Bien dit Cath !!!!!!!!!!!!! Tu as bien raison !

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Cath a écrit:

On a comme notre Sarah Palin a nous autres, maintenant...

Trop bon, Cath !!!!

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