ANIMAL DEFENCE LEAGUE OF CANADA P.O. Box 3880, Stn. C Ottawa, Ontario, K1Y 4M5 E-mail: [email protected] To receive our Bulletins by e-mail instead of paper, please give us your e-mail address, and provide your mailing address for removal from our street address mail list. HAVE YOU RENEWED YOUR MEMBERSHIP THIS YEAR? THANK YOU FOR SENDING YOUR MEMBERSHIP DUES AND DONATIONS. ISSN #1204-6639 Tel: (613)233-6117 Bulletin #197 – SPRING/SUMMER 2021 ADLC Website: www.ncf.ca/animal-defence ADLC’S MARCH 2021 AGM: We will likely not be able to book a meeting room until the beginning of March because of the COVID-19 virus and possible lockdowns. Maybe we will even have to delay our meeting until October or November. Therefore the meeting information below is tentative. ADLC ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM) Will be held TENTATIVELY on Sunday, March 28, 2021, 1:30 pm, (If the weather is bad, we will try for Tuesday, March 30, 7:15 pm.), hopefully at the Don Gamble Recreation Centre at the St. Laurent Complex, 525 Côté Street, 2 blocks west of St. Laurent Blvd., Ottawa, Ontario. If we are unable to secure a meeting room at this facility we will try for another recreation centre. If you plan to attend PLEASE call us to confirm the date and location -- 613-233-6117. MEMBERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND. If you hold a current membership card please bring it with you. Voting eligibility requires your membership fee to have been paid at least 6 months prior to the AGM date. Election of Directors, approve 2020 AGM minutes and 2020 Financial Report, appoint a public accountant, vote on having a Review Engagement of our 2021 financial records done and our 2021 Financial Statements Report (and tax forms) prepared; and Committee Reports. This meeting is open to the public. We look forward to seeing you. Protective face masks in public spaces may still be a requirement. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HAVING US COME AND SPEAK to your students, group or event please contact us by telephone: 613-233-6117, or email: [email protected]. We will travel up to 50 km from Ottawa to you. HELP STOP CANADA’S CRUEL EAST COAST COMMERCIAL SEAL SLAUGHTER: Every spring, in Canada, seals are dying needlessly during the brutal east coast commercial seal hunt. Seal pups between 3 weeks and 3 months of age are shot, clubbed and skinned. 37 countries have banned seal products of the commercial hunt. Our federal government continues to subsidize this cruel industry despite disappearing global markets for seal products. WHAT YOU CAN DO: Please let your federal Member of Parliament and Senators know you support a legislated end to the horrifyingly cruel annual east coast commercial seal hunt. Urge them to support a federal sealing industry buyout. By compensating fishermen for their sealing licenses and developing economic alternatives to help the communities that would be affected by ending Canada’s cruel commercial seal hunt, this would cost much less than the Canadian government spends to keep the annual commercial hunt going. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), (End the Atlantic commercial seal hunt – Take Action / IFAW), urges the Canadian Government to “… end government support for the commercial sealing industry, and instead create economic opportunities in Atlantic Canada such as supporting efforts to remove, recycle, fishing gear and plastic marine debris …” PLEASE WRITE TO: Prime Minister Trudeau, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0A2; Fisheries and Oceans Minister, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0A6. …2 - 2 - For Members of Parliament/Senators names and contact information go to: www.Senators and Members – Parliament of Canada or telephone 1-800-622-6232. No postage required when mailed in Canada. Humane Society International has a form letter on their website (www.hsi.org/issues/seal-slaughter/ -- CLICK on “Seal Slaughter – Humane Society International”. SCROLL down to “End the commercial seal hunt Ask Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to stop the slaughter” then CLICK on “Act Now”.) that you can PREVIEW AND EDIT, and send electronically to Prime Minister Trudeau. We have reprinted it below: “Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, I am writing to ask you to stop Atlantic Canada’s commercial seal slaughter. The harp seals that are the primary targets of the commercial seal hunt are ice-dependent animals. They rely on sea ice to give birth to their pups and the pups need the ice to remain intact until they are old enough to survive in open water. But the harp seals’ sea ice habitat is vanishing. Canadian government reports show that climate change has caused a significant decline in sea ice cover off of Canada’s east coast over the past five decades. In recent years, we have witnessed exceptionally high mortality rates for seal pups born in key whelping areas when the ice melted too soon in the season. It is unthinkable that tens of thousands of the survivors are then subjected to Canada’s cruel, industrial- scale slaughter of seals for their fur. The defenseless pups are often shot and left to suffer, impaled on metal hooks and dragged onto bloody boat decks to be beaten to death. Many wounded seals escape beneath the surface of the water where they die slowly. Veterinarians who have studied the commercial seal hunt have stated that the killing methods at the slaughter are inherently inhumane. The impacts of climate change on ice-dependent animals cannot be reversed in the immediate term. But a responsible government can and must end commercial seal hunting now. Sincerely,” WOLF ROBOTS HELP ALLEVIATE HUMAN/WILDLIFE CONFLICTS.1: December 30 and 31, 2020 we emailed the letter below to: Pierre Dufour, Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs, Québec (Québec); John Yakabuski, Minister of Natural Resources & Forestry, Toronto, ON; Derek Mombourquette, Minister of Lands & Forestry, Halifax, NS; Bloyce Thompson, Minister of Agriculture & Land, Charlottetown, PE; Margaret Johnson, Minister of Agriculture, Aquaculture & Fisheries, Fredericton, NB; Blaine Pederson, Minister of Agriculture and Resource Development, Winnipeg, MB; David Marit, Minister of Agriculture, Regina, SK; Devin Dreeshen, Minister of Agriculture & Forestry, Edmonton, AB; Katrine Conroy, Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations & Rural Development, Victoria, BC; Shane Thompson, Minister of Lands, Yellowknife, NT; Joe Savikataaq, Minister of Environment, Iqualuit, Nunavat; Pauline Frost, Minister of Environment, Whitehorse, YK, and Elvis Loveless, Minister of Fisheries, Forestry & Agriculture, St. John’s, NL (January 18, 2021): We would like to draw your attention to wolf robots2, a technology that is being used to scare away bears, deer and other wildlife that may be causing wildlife/human conflict. This menacing-looking robot is another tool that could aid communities, conservation officers and police in responsibly resolving wildlife/human conflicts. Shooting should not be the first or only choice. We realize there may be situations when wildlife poses an imminent or immediate threat to human safety that the animal has to be killed. Wildlife is, more than ever, under threat from habitat destruction, climate change, sport hunting, controlled kills, poaching; residential, agricultural, recreational and industrial activity; motorized vehicle kills and death by conservation officer/police shootings. We hope that you will seriously consider using wolf robots, and look forward to hearing your thoughts on this technology that deters wildlife from areas where they are not wanted. …3 - 3 - _____________________________________ 1 https://nypost.com/2020/11/11/watch-growling-monster-wolf-robot-scare... Click to view 2020-11-12 · The 3-foot-tall by 4-foot-long wolf-bot is one of dozens installed in Japanese towns to scare off bears and deer that were overrunning local homes or destroying crops. Author: Tamar Lapin 2”TECHNOLOGY WOLF ROBOTS USED TO DETER BEARS”, The Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa, Ontario, November 12, 2020, page NP2: “A Japanese town has deployed robot wolves to scare away bears that have become an increasingly dangerous nuisance in the countryside. The town of Takikawa purchased and installed a pair of the robots after bears were found roaming neighbourhoods in September. No bears have been seen since.” January 7, 2021 we received an email response from the Executive Assistant on behalf of Minister Thompson, Agriculture and Land, Charlottetown, PE: “… On behalf of Minister Thompson, I'd like to acknowledge receipt of your email regarding Wolf Robots and thank you for bringing this technology forward for discussion. The responsibility of wildlife on Prince Edward Island falls under the Department of Environment, Water and Climate Change. I have taken the liberty of including their Department in this email, so that they may reply. …” January 7, 2021 we received an email from the Executive Administrative Assistant on behalf of the Environment, Water & Climate Change Minister, Charlottetown, PE: “… On behalf of Minister Natalie Jameson, I acknowledge receipt of your email. Thank you for taking both the time and initiative to share your concerns with our Department. The matter which you carefully outlined would certainly be relative to our Forest, Fish and Wildlife division. Your email has been shared with Minister Jameson. I have also taken the liberty of sharing your email with Brad Colwill, Deputy Minister, and Kate MacQuarrie, Director, Forest, Fish and Wildlife. Thank you once again for sharing the information below on this interesting technology, it's appreciated. …” A December 31, 2020 email from Minister Margaret Johnson, Agriculture, Aquaculture & Fisheries, Fredericton, NB: “… Thank you for your email regarding wolf robots. I have forwarded the information to the Minister of Natural Resources, Mike Holland. …” CANADA’S FEDERAL BILL C-205, An Act to Amend the Health of Animals Act: February 18, 2020 Conservative MP John Barlow introduced this Private Member’s Bill.
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