The 2022 Canadian Seal hunt

[Catherine]

The Canadian Seal hunt resumed earlier this month. Once again the government subsidizes a brutal slaughter of baby seals. The allowable catch this year is 400,000. That is a lot of dead baby seals, at a time when the market for seal products is declining. It started with the ban on killing the newborn white furred babies. It has expanded. The European Union has restricted the sale of seal products. There are now 36 international trade bans on Canadian seal products.
So why are they still killing the seals?

https://www.ifaw.org/press-releases/2022...nt-resumes

Seriously, why are they killing the seals? There is no market for them. They are not worth what they used to be so this is no longer a profitable business. It would be better to use government money to retrain people for new jobs and establish new industries. 
The seal hunt is a thing of the past. It is time we left it in the past.

If Iceland can give up whaling, we can give up seal hunting.
They could set up a whole ecotourist thing where they take people out on the ice to see the seals. That would need hotels and restaurants and various shops on land as part of the tourism package. It would be sustainable and far more profitable than killing the seals. An it would remove a stain from the ice and from the country and I most of us want that.

[LPC]

This awful slaughter has been going on for so long. When will it end? Why is Trudeau supporting the slaughter?

[Tobi]

A senseless and cruel waste of life.

[Catherine]

The slaughter has been going on for so long that supporting it is just something that has always been done by the government. It would take conscious thought and deliberate choices to actually stop it. I think too many things like this are more of a habit for a country. If we really look at it, we don't support the slaughter and the rest of the world doesn't want it either. It is just hard to stop something that has been going on for a long time. We can do it, but it is proving harder to end than we thought.