Un activiste mis dehors d'un train...

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Il distribuait des brochures pour expliquer aux passagers qu'au Canada, beaucoup d'ours sont tués car ils sont attirés par les grains qui tombent des trains ... Il a été escorté hors du train...


Activist escorted from CPR train

Dave Stobbe ? photo
CP Police asked Jim Pissot not to disrupt or distract people on the
Breakfast for Learning train, Tuesday (Aug. 1).


By Rob Alexander
Aug 03 2006

Canadian Pacific Railway police politely escorted an environmental activist
off its train and property earlier this week.

CPR officials walked Jim Pissot, executive director of the Canmore-based
Defenders of Wildlife Canada, from the 1930s Empress steam train after it
stopped in Canmore on Tuesday (Aug. 1) during a fundraiser for Breakfast for
Learning, a Canadian non-profit organization that works to promote good
nutrition for children.

Each year, CPR offers rides on the Empress on a number of legs from Port
Coquitlam, B.C. to Calgary for $35 to $65 a ticket. Breakfast for Learning
uses the money to support nutrition initiatives in Alberta and B.C. schools.

Pissot, who has continually urged CPR to keep grain from spilling onto the
tracks from its trains in an attempt to reduce the number of bear deaths,
boarded the Empress in Banff for the Banff-Canmore leg of the fundraiser to
hand out a one-page information sheet to people riding the train.

CPR staff, however, quickly stopped Pissot from handing out his brochure and
talking with people riding the train.

“Nobody refused the brochures, I got into a couple of conversations with a
couple of folks that were curious about bears. They knew the railway spilled
grain, they knew bears were attracted to the grain and they knew bears were
killed. A couple of people I talked to were eager to have the information. I
was approached by a woman on the train who asked for a brochure. She may
have been one of the people from whom the public relations people snatched
them from,” Pissot said after being escorted off the CPR right-of-way.

Ed Greenberg, a CPR representative, said railway staff stopped Pissot from
sharing his message on the train as the day was about promoting nutrition
for children.

“The people who were on board had paid their dollars to enjoy a steam train
ride in support of Breakfast for Learning. Mr. Pissot was welcome to pass
out his literature outside of our property during this initiative,”
Greenberg said.

“I want to be clear that CPR and Breakfast for Learning appreciate that Mr.
Pissot did contribute to the initiative by paying for a ticket and riding
and he was welcomed aboard. But you know we asked him to respect that this
initiative was for Breakfast for Learning and to throw the entire spotlight
on this cause.

“We just find it unfortunate, that’s all.”

Canmore resident Rhonda Zee, who rode the train from Banff to Canmore with
her family, said she thought it was appropriate for Pissot to be on the
train informing people of the issue of grain on the tracks and the result
that can have for wildlife that are attracted to the tracks by the grain.

“There’s so many people that don’t know any of this, and there’s lots of
tourists here and everything… It’s always good to inform people, no matter
which way you do it,” Zee said.

Sofia Hogan, a resident of Delaware who was holidaying in the Bow Valley,
said the railway, as a private business, had the right to ask Pissot to
cease and desist while on CPR property.

However, she said she appreciated Pissot’s work as the wilderness and
wildlife is what brought her and her family to the Bow Valley.

“We would not come here to Canmore if this was not available to us, and that
includes the animals and that includes preserving the wildlife, preserving
the forest. I’m very strong about that one,” she said.

“They do not want me talking about this,”said Pissot. “They do not want
anybody pointing out their behaviour within this right of way in a national
park and I think the fact that they are irritated unfortunately suggests we
are having some success.”

Comparing the statistics of railway deaths and deaths connected to other
causes, Greenberg said that since the year 2000, at least 16 bears have been
killed in the mountain parks from other causes, such as collisions on the
Trans-Canada Highway, whereas four bears, including three females, are
attributed to CPR trains.

Pissot has stated that number is actually nine bears, as five cubs orphaned
by the deaths of the three female bears did not reach adulthood.

Greenberg argued the railway has not backed off in finding ways to protect
bears and keep grain off the tracks, and continues to look for and test new
solutions.

[animo-aequoanimo 0]

Au moins, tous les passagers en ont pris, par contre, je crois qu'il est interdit, dans tous les systèmes de transport, de distribuer de la documentation, sinon, à la longue cela pourrait devenir du harcèleemnt pour les passagers.

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C'est quand même drôle que le " harcèlement " est permis dans les endroits publics, tels les centres d'achats, pharmacies, entrées de métro, etc. lorsqu'il est question de quémander des dons pour la recherche ...

[animo-aequoanimo 0]

Là, ça les fait bien voir. C'est pour les pauvres humains qui souffrent de maladies.