Animal abuse in Canadian lab exposed

[Catherine]

Quote:From the first article:
"Canada is the only G8 country that does not have federal government inspectors with the power to enforce rules governing animal treatment in research labs."
Why, Catherine?

I have no idea why are rules are so poor. We are so used to thinking of ourselves as the good guys who are so polite that we forget that we actually need to act like the good guys we think we are.

I don't know if we can blame this on a particular government. The current government didn't cause this. They just haven't fixed it yet. They have not been in power that long.
We have had some bad Prime Ministers who wouldn't have wanted to fix things. If you go back far enough, nobody had rules either. I think we just haven't done anything to regulate lab animals now that the world is starting to know that we should regulate things.

Bringing the issue to the public will help. Governments respond to public pressure. The private members bill that would have protected animals might have failed because it covered too many areas. People were scared of the possible applications of the bill. It might have been better if it had tried to do less because it could have passed and had a chance to do some good.
We have our work cut out for us.