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.... «The animals have been seized and transported off the property; some went to a shelter for farm animals, while the cats and dogs went to the Monteregie SPCA They are to be cared for at the shelters during the police investigation and until a decision is made on whether their owner will be charged with cruelty or negligence. It could be several months before a case is heard in court, Robertson said.»

Nunavut joins battle to support seal hunt Last Updated: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 | 11:51 AM CT CBC News Nunavut has joined forces with Newfoundland and Labrador to fight those opposed to the seal hunt in Canada, following a meeting between government leaders in Iqaluit on Monday. ... Won't ignore activists Newfoundland Fisheries Minister Tom Rideout says the province is taking a new tack on the seal issue, choosing to challenge animal rights activists instead of ignoring them. His province has both a traditional Inuit hunt in Nunatsiavut and the commercial hunt, which puts $70 million into the pockets of people who are normally unemployed every winter. "We're not going to be content to sit back and have lies, in particular, misinformed opinion, go unchallenged so we're going to be proactive from here on in, defending the seal hunt of a sustainable resource humanely harvested," Rideout said. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2007/02/20/seal-nunavut.htmlhttp://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2007/02/20/seal-nunavut.html#skip300x250

J'ai justement posté la nouvelle anglo de la Gazette de Montréal plus tôt Cé...

parfait ma belle Cé

Last Updated: Friday, February 23, 2007 | 9:43 AM MT CBC News Alberta wildlife officials will start killing deer along the Saskatchewan border next month due to concerns over chronic wasting disease. The first cull will be in the southeast corner of Alberta on Red Deer River, near Empress. The second will take place in the Wainwright area, south of Lloydminster. Four new cases of the disease were discovered during last year's hunting season. One of those cases is further west than any of the previous cases. Lyle Fullerton, a spokesman with Alberta Sustainable Resource Development, said he is not sure how many will be killed this year. "This year, we're going to try a test on using a helicopter to collect deer, in addition to our usual ground crew, and that may in fact provide us with more deer than what we're able to capture or collect on the ground." Fullerton said while a cull is unfortunate, it is the only way to deal with the spread of chronic wasting disease — a fatal nervous system disease that is similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease. "Because so little is known about the disease and the mechanisms of spread, things like that, the only options that we have available for controlling chronic wasting disease is actual cull programs," Fullerton said. (FAUX! QU'IL COMMENCE PAR INTERDIRE L'ÉLEVAGE DE CERFS POUR LEUR VIANDE... C'EST LÀ QU'À DÉBUTÉ LE PROBLÈME DE CERFS SAUVAGES VICTIMES DE LA MALADIE DU CERF FOU)

À BORD D'HÉLICOPTÈRES.... Last Updated: Friday, February 23, 2007 | 9:43 AM MT CBC News Alberta wildlife officials will start killing deer along the Saskatchewan border next month due to concerns over chronic wasting disease. The first cull will be in the southeast corner of Alberta on Red Deer River, near Empress. The second will take place in the Wainwright area, south of Lloydminster. Four new cases of the disease were discovered during last year's hunting season. One of those cases is further west than any of the previous cases. Lyle Fullerton, a spokesman with Alberta Sustainable Resource Development, said he is not sure how many will be killed this year. "This year, we're going to try a test on using a helicopter to collect deer, in addition to our usual ground crew, and that may in fact provide us with more deer than what we're able to capture or collect on the ground." Fullerton said while a cull is unfortunate, it is the only way to deal with the spread of chronic wasting disease — a fatal nervous system disease that is similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease. "Because so little is known about the disease and the mechanisms of spread, things like that, the only options that we have available for controlling chronic wasting disease is actual cull programs," Fullerton said. (FAUX! QU'IL COMMENCE PAR INTERDIRE L'ÉLEVAGE DE CERFS POUR LEUR VIANDE... C'EST LÀ QU'À DÉBUTÉ LE PROBLÈME DE CERFS SAUVAGES VICTIMES DE LA MALADIE DU CERF FOU) Last year's deer cull brought in 1,600 deer.

Calgary (Canada) Calgary Sun, Feb. 23, 2007 Daisy Duke may not have had a voice during her life but her cruel torture and death have spurred on many other voices -- 111,896 to be exact -- to speak on her behalf. On Monday, Conservative Wild Rose MP Myron Thompson submitted a massive petition to Parliament with more than 110,000 signatures calling on the feds to put some teeth into Canada's antiquated animal cruelty law. The petition was an almost visceral response to what happened last Oct. 8 when Daisy Duke, a Lab-border collie cross had all four of her legs bound, a bag pulled over her head, duct tape wrapped around her snout and a rope tied around her neck. She was then dragged behind a vehicle in Didsbury, Alta., for one kilometre before being left on the road to die slowly of a broken neck, back and pelvis. Daisy Duke was discovered by another motorist who followed her trail of blood. A local vet then promptly euthanized her. Local residents were so outraged by this vicious assault on a sentient being that Didsbury dog groomer Tamara Chaney launched the legal petition. The dog's owner, Daniel Charles Haskett, 19, has been charged with animal cruelty. Another male, 17 at the time of the alleged offence, has also been charged. But even if someone is convicted and receives the maximum penalty for this heinous crime, under Canada's 115-year-old animal rights law, the alleged perpetrators can be sentenced to only a maximum six months in jail or a $2,000 fine. However, maximum sentences are rarely meted out even for the most severe cases. Reached in Ottawa yesterday, Thompson says he hopes this Parliament will finally be able to pass a new animal cruelty law which would increase the maximum jail term for animal cruelty to five years with a maximum fine of $10,000. "Daisy Duke died a horrible death. It's my hope that this petition born from her terrible torture will help this Parliament to recognize there is wide support to get this law passed," said Thompson. This coming Monday, Bill S-213, will be debated in Parliament and then will go to a committee for further debate but it's not the bill animal rights people want passed. All Canadians who want to see the kind of cruelty that happened to Daisy Duke treated seriously by our courts want Ontario Liberal MP Mark Holland's private member's bill, Bill C-373, to become the new animal cruelty law of the land. The petition calls for the scrapping of Bill S-213 and the implementation of Bill C-373. The debate is expected to fall along those lines. Frankly, however, the time for debate is long past. After all, back in 1892 when the current law was written, Henry Ford was just putting the finishing touches on his first car! So, while hopeful, animal rights groups are not exactly holding their breath awaiting a new law. After all, since 1999 there have been numerous failed attempts to improve this limp law including, bills C-17, C-15, C-15B, C-10, C-10B, C-22, C-50. Michael O'Sullivan, executive director of the Humane Society of Canada, says judges and Crown attorneys need to take crimes against animals more seriously -- and apply the maximum penalty for the worst cases. "Yes, we need stronger laws and tougher penalties but in the meantime everybody involved in the process now -- humane societies, police, crown prosecutors and judges -- need to understand that the FBI considers cruelty to animals one of the three primary indicators of serious criminal behaviour," said O'Sullivan. Even if there were no link between animal cruelty and rape, torture and murder of humans -- and there is -- such behaviour should warrant stiffer penalties.

Feb, 23, 2007- CBC News Police say the same person is likely responsible for the beating death of a second swan found in an Owen Sound park. A woman walking her dog found the remains of the mute swan Wednesday in a snowbank in the city's Harrison Park, said the Owen Sound Sun Times. Police said the bird, one of 19 mute swans that live at the park, had "obvious signs of trauma," said the report. Police and park officials believe the swan was killed by the same person who beat another park swan to death on the weekend. A tree branch likely used to strike that swan was found next to it, along with a single set of footprints, said police. The swan found on Wednesday appeared to have been bludgeoned and had a broken wing, said the newspaper. Park officials said the latest swan to die had been hatched and raised at the park and was among the friendliest of the swans, which can have aggressive temperaments. On Monday, two other exotic birds — a black shoulder peacock and a Reeves pheasant — were found dead in their cages at the park. Police suspect they were poisoned. The dead birds have been sent to the University of Guelph for testing. With its graceful, curved neck and orange bill, the mute swan is one of three types of swans commonly seen in Canadian parks. The other two types are the trumpeter swan and tundra swan.

Plus de détails dans la Montreal Gazette MICHELLE LALONDE, The Montreal Gazette Published: Thursday, February 22, 2007 Surete du Quebec officers conducting a raid yesterday on a rural property near Sorel-Tracy found dozens of pets and farm animals living in filthy conditions with inadequate shelter and little food or water. The Monteregie Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was tipped off last week by an anonymous caller who said cats and rabbits were being kept outside in freezing temperatures in cages full of excrement, and a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig was crammed into a tiny shed with dozens of chickens. "The pig could hardly move because the shed was so small and the chickens were constantly pecking at him," said Linda Robertson, director of the Monteregie SPCA, who was present during yesterday's raid. "We were told (by the caller) that a woman lives in the house ... but when we went to check out the situation, she was never there," Robertson said. Yesterday morning, SQ officers executed a search warrant and raided the property, a house and several buildings in St. Robert, about 100 kilometres northeast of Montreal. Police found one dead foal, two underfed ponies, a horse, the pot- bellied pig, four or five sheep, five Persian cats, half a dozen rabbits and an assortment of fowl, including several peacocks, in and around the sheds on the property, Robertson said. "The foal hadn't just died or anything; it had been dead for a while and just left there," she said. Inside the house, the investigators found six purebred dogs - two German shepherds, two pugs and two Doberman pinschers. The house itself was heavily soiled with dog excrement and urine, Robertson added. The woman who is alleged to live in the house came home during the raid. Robertson guessed the woman to be in her mid-40s and seemed to be living alone with the animals. "You try to get a reading on these people, to comprehend why they have these animals when they can't look after them, and it just boggles the mind," Robertson said in a telephone interview. She said she did not know yet whether the woman was in the business of breeding or selling animals. The animals have been seized and transported off the property; some went to a shelter for farm animals, while the cats and dogs went to the Monteregie SPCA. They are to be cared for at the shelters during the police investigation and until a decision is made on whether their owner will be charged with cruelty or negligence. It could be several months before a case is heard in court, Robertson said.

Seal hunt battle goes high-tech Computer-assisted lobbying Canada takes on U.S. activist group's seafood boycott with sophisticated computer software Feb 22, 2007 04:30 AM Tim Harper WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON–As a U.S. Humane Society boycott of Canadian seafood began to have an effect, the Canadian embassy began a counteroffensive with what it is touting as the most sophisticated lobbying tool in the country. The battle of the seal hunt has featured international celebrities, grim tales from distant ice floes and graphic photos of bloody clubs on one side and – in typically Canadian understated fashion – a computer software package on the other. The embassy tool is known as GoCCART (Government of Canada Congressional Analysis and Research Tool), a computer program developed by an American company that allows Canadian advocates to drill deep into every congressional, state or local political district in the U.S. with the click of a mouse. Who has the most fish processing plants contemplating joining in the boycott in his or her district? Have those plants contributed to congressional campaigns? Are there Canadian-owned businesses in that district who might be offering support to the member? GoCCART knows and so, now, do staffers from Canadian Ambassador Michael Wilson to representatives in 19 consulates and trade offices from Anchorage to Boston. The software has been credited with giving the Canadian side a huge boost in opening the border to beef exports because advocates were able to go to legislators and identify meat processing plants in their district where local job losses could be expected if the ban was continued. The Humane Society says since it began its ProtectSeals boycott in March 2005, Canadian exports of sea crabs to the U.S. have declined by $353.6 million (U.S.), or 36 per cent. Although it does not claim that plunge is totally attributable to the boycott – Canada says factors such as market tastes, currency fluctuations and transport costs are bigger – it says the dip in exports are more pronounced than exports to other countries without the boycott. Embassy officials have described the counteroffensive as "Politics 101,'' and it's really an homage to the famous adage from one-time House speaker Tip O'Neill, who believed all politics was local. "It's all about perception,'' said embassy spokesperson Bernard Etzinger. "We can say, `you're being asked to do this – have you looked at it this way?'" The pilot project began in January 2005, but it has been fully functional in the past six to eight months. In a funding request from the embassy to the department of foreign affairs, the Washington office describes the "wow factor'' in the level of information obtained, "because we show them local knowledge, and that we care about the same thing they do.'' The documents were obtained under Freedom of Information legislation by Ottawa researcher Ken Rubin. The software, developed by iMapData Corp. of Washington, D.C., has also been used during the softwood lumber negotiations, to try to explode myths about Canadian social, security and environmental policies, and even on the Canadian push for a more robust international presence in Darfur, Sudan. But it is difficult to determine whether it is working on the seafood boycott, which is approaching its second anniversary. Rebecca Aldworth, the U.S. Humane Society representative in Canada, said she has never dealt with a fish processing plant or restaurant that said it would not join the boycott of Canadian seafood because of the representation of the Canadian government – or a U.S. representative who may have been lobbied by Canada. "We're not getting pushed back. I'm not saying this is not happening, but it has never come to our attention,'' she said. "The greatest success of the Canadian government is its misrepresentation of the effect of the boycott. That misinformation is irresponsible and reprehensible.'' Etzinger said Canadian consular officials throughout the U.S. are using GoCCART data to build awareness on the boycott. "Our consulates in the U.S. are meeting with industry to take advantage of opportunities to correct myths and misperceptions on the seal hunt,'' he said. "We are using GoCCART to build a database of seafood processing facilities and mapping those out by city, state, and congressional district. We will continue to assess the impact that the boycott has on the seafood sector.''

Île-du-Prince-Édouard (Canada) Grey seal quota too small says P.E.I. fishery association February 23, 2007 CBC News With days left to the start of the 2007 grey seal hunt, a fisherman's association in Prince Edward Island says it's unhappy with the quota set by federal officials. Ed Frenette, executive director of the P.E.I. Fishermen's Association, told the Summerside Journal Pioneer that the pelts from the grey seal fishery will only bring in about $35 each this year as the quality is low. And any potential profits will be cut because the quota of 2,100 pelts has to be shared with sealers from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the Magdalen Islands. There are 26 local hunters licensed for a harvest set to begin as soon as federal officials determine the pups have shed their white coats. The much-larger harp seal hunt, that last year had a quota of 325,000 pelts, is expected to start in mid-March amid annual protests by anti-sealing advocates and its attendant press coverage. Frenette says the smaller hunt tends to go off more quietly because the grey seal causes extensive damage to lobster gear. The Journal Pioneer cites a study by the province in 2001 that found damage to gear that year was $6.2 million.

Bois traité interdit laterre.ca 20 février 2007 redaction@laterre.ca En Colombie-Britannique des taux élevés de dioxine dans du lait entraîne l’interdiction de stocker les moulées dans des contenants de bois traité. Les éleveurs ne devraient pas stocker directement les moulées contre des parois de bois traité. Les pentachlorophénols et les autres dioxines contenus dans les agents de conservation recouvrant le bois traité peuvent migrer dans les moulées pour animaux et de là, se retrouver dans le lait. Ces produits sont dangereux pour la santé humaine et leur découverte, dans le lait de deux laiteries de la Colombie-Britannique, a provoqué tout un branle-bas, selon le National Post. Dorénavant, les éleveurs de cette province devront recouvrir les abris de bois traité d’une couche de bois non-traité et une autre de plastique avant d’y entreposer de la nourriture destinée au bétail.

Mise à jour le vendredi 23 février 2007 Le candidat libéral dans Kamouraska-Témiscouata, Claude Béchard, affirme que le projet d'usine d'abattage et de transformation de porcs à Notre-Dame-du-Lac a de très fortes chances de se réaliser. ... Aliments Pordelys est une entreprise formée de 25 petits producteurs de la Beauce qui veut mettre en marché de la viande de porc de qualité supérieure provenant d'animaux nourris exclusivement avec des aliments naturels exempts de sous-produits et de médicaments. http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/est-quebec/2007/02/23/003-aliments-pordelys.asp

PHO QUE ÇA ARRÊTE L'abattage des phoques se déroule principalement dans le golfe du Saint-Laurent, près des Îles-de-la-Madeleine, et au «front», à l’est de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador. Dès que la condition des glaces le permet, des centaines de milliers de phoques sont abattus. La majorité sont des bébés âgés d’à peine quelques semaines, n’ayant même pas eu la chance d’apprendre à nager et à s’alimenter de nourriture solide. Au cours des dernières années, plus de 300,000 bébés phoques ont été tués avant même d'avoir atteint l'âge de 3 mois. Principalement abattus pour leur peau, mais aussi pour leurs organes génitaux, leur huile, leurs nageoires, les phoques sont tués sur la glace à grands coups d’hakapiks ou de gourdins. Ils sont parfois écorchés vifs. Traînés sur la glace jusqu’aux embarcations, les phoques sont dépecés et la plupart des carcasses, y compris la chair sont abandonnées sur la banquise ou balancées par-dessus bord. Plus tard en saison, les phoques plus âgés sont tirés à la carabine ou au fusil, tant sur la banquise que dans l'eau. Après le carnage, des milliers de phoques blessés gisent sur la glace ou agonisent dans les eaux. Au cours de la période 2003-2005, le gouvernement canadien a autorisé la mise à mort de 985,000 phoques. À ce chiffre monstrueux, s’ajoutent quelques 76,000 phoques blessés ou écrasés vivants par des navires de pêche ou noyés, et non comptabilisés dans les statistiques. En 2006, le gouvernement canadien a autorisé 335 000 captures. La chasse commerciale du phoque ne représente qu'un faible revenu d’appoint pour quelques 12,000 chasseurs, revenu que l’état pourrait tout simplement subventionner au lieu de promouvoir cette chasse effroyable. La majorité des Canadiens ignorent que cette chasse au phoque est financée par leurs impôts. Les subventions sont directement versées aux chasseurs et à leurs organisations. Elles servent entre autres à promouvoir la chasse au phoque sur la scène internationale et à financer la recherche sur le développement de nouveaux produits du phoque. Aucune justification économique, scientifique ou environnementale ne permet de continuer à perpétrer ce massacre sauvage axé principalement sur l’exportation pour l’industrie de la mode et la fabrication de produits dérivés totalement inutiles. Les experts mondiaux s'entendent pour reconnaître qu’en plus de la fonte des glaces qui menace les phoques du Groenland, l'envergure de cette chasse met leur population en danger. En continuant à soutenir la chasse au phoque, le gouvernement canadien discrédite la Convention sur le commerce international des espèces menacées d’extinction (CITES) qui interdit la commercialisation de produits dérivés de ces espèces animales. La commercialisation de la faune et de ses dérivés mène à la cruauté et à l'anéantissement de populations d'animaux sauvages. Le gouvernement canadien compte sur votre silence. FAITES-LUI SAVOIR QU’IL FAUT QUE ÇA ARRÊTE Adresse du Premier Ministre du Canada, Monsieur Stephen Harper Cabinet du Premier ministre 80, rue Wellington Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A2 courriel: pm@pm.gc.ca _________________________________________ NO MORE BLOOD AND GORE The commercial seal slaughter mainly occurs in the Gulf of St-Lawrence near the Magdalen Islands, and on the "Front," east of Newfoundland and Labrador. As soon as ice conditions allow it, hundreds of thousands of seals are killed. The majority are babies, hardly a few weeks old, who have not even learn how to swim or feed themselves with solid food. For the past years, more than 300,000 baby seals were slaughtered before they reached the age of 3 months old. Mainly killed for their skin, but also for their genitals, their oil, their fins, seals are slaughtered on the ice with great blows of hakapiks or clubs. They are sometimes skinned alive. Dragged across the ice into fishing boats, seals are cut up and the majority of the carcasses including the flesh are abandoned on the ice or thrown over board. Later in the season, older seals are shot with a rifle or a gun, on the ice or in the water. After the slaughter, thousands of wounded seals lie on the ice or agonize in the water. During the 2003-2005 period, the Canadian government authorized the killing of 985,000 seals. To this monstrous figure, some 76,000 seals, wounded, crushed by fishing boats, or drowned, are not accounted for in the statistics. In 2006, the Canadian government authorized 335 000 captures. The commercial seal hunt only represents an auxiliary income for some 12,000 hunters, an income which the government could quite simply subsidize instead of promoting this appalling hunt. The majority of Canadians are unaware that this seal hunt is financed through their taxes. The subsidies are directly given to the hunters and their organizations. They are used to promote the seal hunt on the international scene and to finance research for the development of new seal products. There are no economic, scientific or environmental justification to continue this wild massacre which is mainly centred on export for the fashion industry and the manufacturing of completely useless by-products. World experts recognize that besides the global warming that threatens Greenland seals, the extent of the number of seals that are killed, endangers their population. By continuing to support commercial seal hunt the Canadian government discredits the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) which prohibits the marketing of products derived from these animal species. The marketing of fauna and its derivatives brings cruelty and the destruction of wild animals populations. The Canadian government is counting on your silence. LET HIM KNOW YOU WANT NO MORE BLOOD AND GORE Address of Prime Minister of Canada, Mr Stephen Harper Cabinet of Prime Minister 80 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A2 email:pm@pm.gc.ca

Voir rubrique plus bas: Appui de taille pour le projet de loi sur la cruauté envers les animaux

C'est super animo ! Quelle belle petite chienne

Ils ne feraient pas ça à des enfants... mais tant que les animaux du Québec ne seront considérés par la loi que comme des meubles ...

AHAHAHHAHAHAH Je suis crampée !

Et comment ! Je pensais qu'elle parlait du Front de Libération des Animaux

OK merci ma belle Cé ! Je reprendrai les corrections demain... J'ai presque terminé la traduction anglo...

Tu as très bien fait hop ! p.s.: J'ai vu qu'elle est venue faire son tour ce matin...

Merci, j'envoie ma lettre demain

(VERSION CORRIGÉE) PHO QUE ÇA ARRÊTE L'abattage des phoques se déroule sur les côtes de Terre-Neuve, du Labrador, à l'Île du Cap-Breton ainsi qu'au Québec, dans le golfe du Saint-Laurent et l’estuaire maritime, principalement dans les secteurs de la Côte-Nord et des Îles-de-la-Madeleine. J'ai changé ce premier paragraphe pour celui-ci (tel qu'expliqué par IFAW).. Ça raccourçi un peu... L'abattage des phoques se déroule principalement dans le golfe du Saint-Laurent, près des Îles-de-la-Madeleine, et au «front», à l’est de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador. Dès que la condition des glaces le permet, des centaines de milliers de phoques sont abattus. La majorité sont des bébés âgés d’à peine quelques semaines, n’ayant même pas eu la chance d’apprendre à nager et à s’alimenter de nourriture solide. Au cours des dernières années, plus de 300,000 bébés phoques ont été tués avant même d'avoir atteint l'âge de 3 mois. Principalement abattus pour leur peau, mais aussi pour leurs organes génitaux, leur huile, leurs nageoires, les phoques sont tués sur la glace à grands coups d’hakapiks ou de gourdins. Ils sont parfois écorchés vifs. Traînés sur la glace jusqu’aux embarcations, une fois dépecés, la plupart des carcasses, y compris la chair sont abandonnées sur la banquise ou balancées par-dessus bord. Plus tard en saison, les phoques plus âgés sont chassés à la carabine ou au fusil, tant sur la banquise que dans l'eau. Après le carnage, des milliers de phoques blessés gisent sur la glace ou agonisent dans les eaux. Au cours de la période 2003-2005, le gouvernement canadien a autorisé la mise à mort de 985,000 phoques. À ce chiffre monstrueux, s’ajoutent quelques 76,000 phoques blessés ou écrasés vivants par des navires de pêche ou noyés, et non comptabilisés dans les statistiques. En 2006, le gouvernement canadien a autorisé 335 000 captures. La chasse commerciale du phoque ne représente qu'un faible revenu d’appoint pour quelques 12,000 chasseurs, revenu que l’état pourrait tout simplement subventionner au lieu de promouvoir cette chasse effroyable. La majorité des Canadiens ignorent que cette chasse au phoque est financée par leurs impôts. Les subventions sont directement versées aux chasseurs et à leurs organisations. Elles servent entre autres à promouvoir la chasse au phoque sur la scène internationale et à financer la recherche sur le développement de nouveaux produits du phoque. Aucune justification économique, scientifique ou environnementale ne permet de continuer à perpétrer ce massacre sauvage axé principalement sur l’exportation pour l’industrie de la mode et la fabrication de produits dérivés totalement inutiles. Les experts mondiaux s'entendent pour reconnaître qu’en plus de la fonte des glaces qui menace les phoques du Groenland, l'envergure de cette chasse met leur population en danger. En continuant à soutenir la chasse au phoque, le gouvernement canadien discrédite la Convention sur le commerce international des espèces menacées d’extinction qui interdit la commercialisation de produits dérivés de ces espèces animales. La commercialisation de la faune et de ses dérivés mène à la cruauté et à l'anéantissement de populations d'animaux sauvages. Le gouvernement canadien compte sur votre silence. FAITES-LUI SAVOIR QU’IL FAUT QUE ÇA ARRÊTE Adresse du Premier Ministre du Canada, Monsieur Stephen Harper Cabinet du Premier ministre 80, rue Wellington Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A2 courriel: pm@pm.gc.ca ----------------------------------------- Cette photo a été prise par IFAW en 2006- Il s'agit d'un blanchon qui n'a même pas eu le temps de perdre tout son pelage blanc avant qu'il ne soit lâchement abattu.... (sur cette photo, il est toujours vivant)