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ARCHIVE - Canada No-Kill Seal Bill Dropped, No Debate

PROTEST THWARTED CHANCE TO END CANADIAN SEAL HUNT
3/4/09, OTTAWA (AFP) — Faced with the prospect of a European ban on the trade of seal products, Canadian Senator Mac Harb introduced a private members bill that would end the commercial seal slaughter in Canada, but allow the traditional Inuit hunt to continue. The bill failed to gain any support from the start, however, even from Harb’s fellow Liberals, and was immediately dropped from the Senate’s agenda. "This bill was stillborn," a Liberal spokesman told AFP. Canadian senator makes futile bid to ban seal hunt, www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jNi6EJF6WPOSqGpBc2pKmXbwzYtQ


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Honorable Government Officials,

I am dismayed by the recent dismissal of a bill to end Canada’s commercial harp seal hunt. Senator Mac Harb’s amendment to the Fisheries Act sought to ban seal slaughter in Canadian waters, with immunity for aboriginal peoples.

Senator Harb told the press that "in the face of disappearing markets for seal products and overwhelming international opposition, it is time for Canada to recognize that we can’t resuscitate this dying industry." The bill was deleted from the senate’s agenda without debate.

Please use your influence as a spokesperson for Canadians and citizens of the world to advocate an end to this contentious hunt. I urge you to revive Senator Harb’s bill — and finally accept that most Americans, Europeans, and even Canadians oppose the word’s largest marine mammal massacre.

The Harb Seal Bill coincides with a declining seal market. Belgium, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Croatia, the United States and Mexico already prohibit seal products. On March 2, 2009, IMCO (Internal Market and Consumer Protection) MEPs voted 25-7 to bar seal items from import/export through the European Union. By April 1 the full Parliament will vote on the EU’s pending trade ban on all non- aboriginal seal goods.

It’s hard to defend the annual clubbing or shooting of over a quarter million seals, 98% of whom range from 2 weeks to 3 months in age. The March 2009 hunt off Canada’s east coast promises no change. Sealers ambush whelping grounds to gun down, bludgeon, kick, and thrash pups with hakapiks. The take in 2008 was over 217,000 seals, with 99.8% under 3 months old.

Hunters commonly hook seals without verifying unconsciousness or death. Photos depict sealers dragging alert animals with boathooks. A team of impartial veterinarians once concluded 42% of examined seals were still awake when skinned.

I’ve copied my comments to EU and Russian officials to let them know I back all legislation that bans commercial sealing around the world. Please support passage of the Harb Seal Bill. It’s time.

Thank you,
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CANADIAN EMBASSIES ABROAD
Embassy of Canada in Washington DC, USA
The Honourable Michael Wilson Canadian Ambassador, United States of America
501 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
ph: 202-682-1740, fax: 202-682-7619, 202-682-7726
email: webmaster@canadianembassy.org
Canadian Consulates in USA: atnta-td@international.gc.ca, bostn@international.gc.ca, bfalo@international.gc.ca, chcgo@international.gc.ca, dalas- td@international.gc.ca, denvr-g@international.gc.ca, dtrot@international.gc.ca, hston- td@international.gc.ca, lngls@international.gc.ca, miami-td@international.gc.ca, seatl@international.gc.ca, mnpls-td@international.gc.ca, sanjo@international.gc.ca, cngny@international.gc.ca, sfran@international.gc.ca, sndgo- td@international.gc.ca

Mission of Canada to the European Union
The Honourable Ross Hornby
Avenue de Tervuren 2
1040 Brussels, Belgium
ph: +32 0(2) 741 0681, +32 0(2) 741 0660
fax: +32 0(2) 741 0623, +32 0(2) 741 0629
email: ross.hornby@international.gc.ca, danielle.cassivi@international.gc.ca, jean.saint-jacques@international.gc.ca

Permanent Mission of Canada to United Nations
One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
885 Second Avenue, 14th Floor; New York, NY 10017
ph: 212-848-1100, fax: 212-848-1195, -1192, -1128
email: canada@un.int, prmny@international.gc.ca
SOURCE: www.international.gc.ca/ciw- cdm/embassies-ambassades.aspx?lang=eng

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international.gc.ca/ciw-cdm/embassies- ambassades.aspx?lang=eng

RUSSIAN OFFICIALS
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
web mail: premier.gov.ru/eng/mail/step2.html
SOURCE: premier.gov.ru/eng/mail/step1.html

Dmitry Medvedev, President, Russian Federation
Kremlin, Moscow, RUSSIA
email: webmaster@gov.ru

Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation
The Honorable Minister Yurii Petrovich Trutnev
4/6 Bolshaya Gruzinskaya Street
Moscow 123812, RUSSIA
ph: 7 095 254-4800
fax: 7 095 254-6610, 254-4310
email: admin@mnr.gov.ru, admin@cbi-mpr.ru, kukosh@mnr.gov.ru, tveritinov@mnr.gov.ru
SOURCE: www.mnr.gov.ru/part/?pid=398

Russian State Fisheries Committee
Mr. Vladimir Shevlyakov, Attache on Fisheries with the Embassy of the Russian Federation in USA
1609 Decature Street, NW; Washington, DC 20011
ph: 202-726-3838; fax: 202-726-0090
email: rusfishatt@starpower.net
SOURCE: www.russianembassy.org/embassy/minfish.htm

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation
Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov
email: dip@mid.ru
SOURCE: www.mid.ru

Russian Ministry of Agriculture
email: info@gov.mcx.ru
SOURCE: www.mcx.ru
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Senator Mac Harb
The Senate of Canada, Parliament Buildings
Ottawa, Ontario; Canada K1A 0A4
ph: 613-996-2379, fax: 613-996-2318
email: harbm@sen.parl.gc.ca

Noel A. Kinsella, Speaker of the Senate
ph: 613-992-4416, fax: 613-992-9772
email: kinsen@sen.parl.gc.ca

Rose-Marie Losier-Cool, Speaker pro tempore
ph: 613-947-8011, fax: 613-947-8013
email: losier@sen.parl.gc.ca

Marjory LeBreton, Leader of the Government in the Senate — ph: 613-943-0756, fax: 613-943-1493
email: lebrem@sen.parl.gc.ca

Peter Andrew Stewart Milliken, Speaker of the House of Commons — House of Commons; Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6
ph: 613-996-1955, fax: 613-996-1958
email: Milliken.P@parl.gc.ca

Andrew Scheer, Deputy Speaker & Chairman of Committees of Whole of the House of Commons — ph: 613-992-4593,
fax: 613-996-3120, email: Scheer.A@parl.gc.ca

Jay D. Hill, Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
ph: 613-947-4524, fax: 613-947-4527
email: Hill.J@parl.gc.ca

CANADIANS ONLY — WRITE ELECTED OFFICIALS
MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Lists/Members.aspx

MEMBERS OF THE SENATE
www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/compilations/senate.aspx? Menu=Senate

EUROPEAN UNION, europa.eu
Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Commissioner Joe Borg
European Commission; B-1049 Brussels
email: Cabinet-Borg@ec.europa.eu
European Parliament Committee on Fisheries:
ip-PECH@europarl.europa.eu
SOURCE: europa.eu/pol/fish/index_en.htm

José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission — 1049 Brussels, Belgium
Spokesperson: leonor.ribeiro-da-silva@ec.europa.eu
web mail: ec.europa.eu/commission_barroso/president/contact /mail/index_en.htm

European Commission, public opinion: eurobarometer@ec.europa.eu

Czech Presidency of the EU Council: public@eu2009.cz

European Food And Safety Authority: info@efsa.europa.eu

CONTACTS, ALL EUROPEAN UNION AGENCIES:
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