Retract the Senate Report: Sealing the Future!

The fishing and fur industries, their lobbyists, and unscrupulous or wilfully uninformed federal politicians—both Members of Parliament and Senators—are ramping up the pressure on the federal government to expand the Canadian commercial seal hunt. As of mid-2024, 14 Canadian Senators produced the Senate’s Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans’ report on Canada’s commercial seal hunts and sealing industry, “Sealing the Future: A Call to Action”. These 14 Senators are trying to expand the Canadian commercial seal hunt by persuading the European Union (EU) through lies, misinformation and personal attacks, to end its ban on the sale ...

The fishing and fur industries, their lobbyists, and unscrupulous or wilfully uninformed federal politicians—both Members of Parliament and Senators—are ramping up the pressure on the federal government to expand the Canadian commercial seal hunt. As of mid-2024, 14 Canadian Senators produced the Senate’s Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans’ report on Canada’s commercial seal hunts and sealing industry, “Sealing the Future: A Call to Action”. These 14 Senators are trying to expand the Canadian commercial seal hunt by persuading the European Union (EU) through lies, misinformation and personal attacks, to end its ban on the sale of seal products. They are also trying to monitor the activities of Canadians who disagree with Canada’s pro-sealing policy. Until now, we’ve believed that such an authoritarian proposal could never be included in an official document in Canada. We were wrong.

For the protection of your own democratic rights, and for animals, don’t let this stand.

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Contact Your MP to Retract the Senate Report: Sealing the Future

We are asking that you raise the alarm by contacting your Member of Parliament (MP). Your Member of Parliament needs to know that the “Sealing the Future” report is problematic and is filled with inaccuracies and misinformation. We need to mobilize concerned citizens across the country to TAKE ACTION AND SPEAK OUT! We have to speak out in order to protect our right to our shared belief – that seals and other marine animals must be protected from the irresponsible industries exploiting and harming them.

Please take action TODAY! Share this action with friends and family and share it widely - we need to apply widespread and consistent pressure to protect our democratic rights from the creep of authoritarianism.

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I am writing today to express my opposition to a Senate report entitled “Sealing the Future: A Call to Action”, regarding Canada’s commercial seal slaughter. It is very concerning to learn that the report produced by 14 Canadian Senators is not only filled with inaccuracies and misinformation but also makes a troubling recommendation that the Government of Canada require registered Canadian charities and non-profit organizations to fill out information returns about donors, which includes a public information return that lists each donor whose total gifts to the organization in the year exceed $5,000.

What exactly will be done with this list of donors? We citizens have a right to believe that animals should not be killed. We citizens have a right to oppose our own government’s position on Canada’s commercial seal hunt. We citizens have a right – and a responsibility – to hold governments accountable. Political dissent is a bedrock of free democracies and is necessary to maintain free societies.

This threat to democracy, coming from unelected representatives in Canada’s Senate, is unacceptable.

The romanticization of killing these beings for nothing more than a tourist trinket or piece of clothing with their fur on it is deeply upsetting - they do not exist to be turned into a commodity.

This hunt has created a global stain on Canada’s reputation and now, so is this Senate report.

If you have not yet read “Sealing the Future”, I urge you to do so. If you are as alarmed as I am, please urge the Senate committee to retract this report.

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