Melissa avec Mike Duffy de CTV News

[Animal 0]

Ça me déçoit beaucoup qu'elle n'ait pas mentionné la chasse au phoque du Québec et que ça soit Duffy qui ai rajouté cette info !
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Seal Hunt Debate
CTV News and Current Affairs
Thu 15 Mar 2007
Time: 17:00:00 ET
Network: CTV NEWSNET

MIKE DUFFY: Welcome back in to the Thursday edition of "Mike Duffy
Live". Well, some good news for Canadian sealers. News out of
Strasbourg, France, the seat of the European parliament today, says
further studies are needed before the European Union can decide
whether to ban seal fur. Information relating to animal welfare must
be studied, says the European environment commissioner, Stavos
Dimas, saying that he's not prepared to go ahead with an immediate
ban on seal fur in the European Union. Mark Small is a Newfoundland
seal hunter from Wild Cove, Newfoundland, he's with us here in the
studio; and in Toronto, Melissa Tkachyc, who is with the World
Society for the Protection of Animals. Melissa, great to have you
back. You were with us last year.

MELISSA TKACHYC (World Society for the Protection of Animals): I
was.

DUFFY: Today they had a demonstration or an information picket on
Parliament Hill with a group of sealers who were both Inuit and
Newfoundlanders explaining their position on this. Do I understand
your position correctly, that you're in favour of the Inui t seal
hunt but not the Newfoundland seal hunt?

TKACHYC: Our protests today that are happening across the country
from the east to west coast with countries around the world is
denouncing the large-scale commercial slaughter of seals that
happens almost exclusively by commercial fishers in Newfoundland .

DUFFY: So what about the Inuit? Is a seal a seal?

TKACHYC: We are not opposed to the subsistence hunting by aboriginal
peoples. It's a very different hunt. We are against the commercial
slaughter of seals by people in Newfoundland. I know that the
Canadian government has put considerable effort in trying to blur
that distinction, but there is a significant distinction when you're
killing a few animals for personal subsistence use versus a large
scale, industrial commercial slaughter.

MARK SMALL (Commercial Seal Hunter): Well, Melissa, I understand
where you're coming from, but coastal people on the Newfoundland
coast and in Labrador Straits area and the Quebec north shore and
the Magdalene Islands, they have always used seal as subsis tence
living. We are on a high land in the North Atlantic and we harvest
fish, we harvest seals, to basically provide a living for our
families. It's no sport. It's a very harsh environment, and we do it
under strict Canadian laws, and we're professional at our job and
the seals that we're harvesting are mature seals, and it's supported
by the Veterinarian Association as a humane hunt. Justice Maloof, in
his report, declared the Canada seal hunt is a humane hunt, and
we're very proud of the new sealing in dustry that we have developed
in eastern Canada for people all across Canada. This has been a
great day because we have stood shoulder to soldier from sea to sea
with the people in the north, the native people, and we are on a
move forward in this new sea l hunt that we have, and we're going to
stand side by side.

TKACHYC: I have to take objection

DUFFY: Melissa, they call it new seal hunt, what about that?

TKACHYC: I have to take objection to referring to this seal hunt as
a subsistence hunt. We're talking about a million seals that have
been killed over the past three years. That's not subsistence
hunting, that's a large-scale, industrial, commercial slaug hter.
The seals are primarily less than three months old. They're killed
for their prime condition pelts. This is a hunt of baby seals for
their pelts to supply the fur fashion industry. There's nothing
subsistence or sustainable about that.

DUFFY: I suspect Mark would say that subsistence is a paycheque so
that people in these small communities have something to subsist on,
i.e. money.

TKACHYC: Well, from Department of Fisheries and Oceans statistics,
you can find out that the majority of people that are involved in
sealing, it's an off-season activity for them. It's a secondary
source of income to supplement their prime source of incom e which
is through the commercial fisheries. So...

SMALL: Melissa, you have to understand what has taken place on the
east coast of Canada with our fishery. We've been under a moratorium
since 1982. I have a million dollar enterprise and seven or eight
crew members, plus I supply people with jobs in the p lant,
truckers, people in the gas stations, and I tell you now that the
hunt that we have developed is not just for fur. We have developed
omega three from seal oil, and it's taking on all across this world
today, and people are very health conscience, an d we have developed
a whole new seal hunt, and it's going forward, and we're here today
to be proactive with both governments in the provinces on the...

DUFFY: That's got to be it, Mark, I'm afraid we're out of time.
Melissa, thank you in Toronto.

TKACHYC: My pleasure.

DUFFY: Mark Small here from Wild Cove, Newfoundland, with me in
Ottawa. We've got a lot more "Mike Duffy Live" coming right up right
after the headlines.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

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[animo-aequoanimo 0]

Oui, c'est curieux qu'elle ne le faisait pas et ça a donc bien coupé court. Il aurait été intéressant de savoir ce qu'elle aurait répondu à ce Small.

[Animal 0]

Ce n'est pas la première fois que j'entends parler des anti-chasse au phoque qui oublient de mentionner le Québec ! C'est enrageant quand même !

[animo-aequoanimo 0]

Ce n'est pas faute de savoir: elle m'a téléphoné 2 fois la veille et l'avant-veille du 15 !!!!! Peut-être de la nervosité d'être en entrevue avec ce Small.

[Animal 0]

je ne sais vraiment pas Cé ! C'est comme si le Québec était effacé de la carte quand ils parlent de défense animale. Comme je te le mentionnais plus tôt, ça arrive très souvent qu'on oublie totalement le Québec quand on parle chasse au phoque

[animo-aequoanimo 0]

C'est encore plus surprenant de sa part car elle voulait être bien certaine qu'elle pourrait me référer les médias francophones qui souhaiteraient obtenir de l'info pour le Québec.

[Animal 0]

Elle devrait peut-être revoir ses notes avant de passer à la télé !