A Manitoba senator is teaming up with the world’s most prominent expert on primates to introduce a bill to protect captive animals and ban imports of elephant ivory and hunting trophies into Canada..“I’m introducing a bill in the Senate of Canada that will establish some of the strongest animal-protection laws in the world,” Sen. Murray Sinclair told reporters Tuesday in Ottawa..“Certainly, the strongest animal-protection laws in Canada.”.Sinclair is naming his bill the Jane Goodall Act, after the primatologist who has worked for 60 years studying social and family interactions among wild chimpanzees..Sinclair’s bill would ban new captivity of great apes and elephants unless it’s licensed and for their best interests..It would also ban elephants and great apes from performing in circuses..The act would establish legal standing for the protected animals allowing courts to issue orders to move them to new care or to improve their living conditions.. Defying crackdown, hundreds march against lockdowns in Calgary .There are believed to be 20 elephants and 33 great apes living in captivity in Canada including nine chimpanzees, 18 gorillas and six orangutans, The Canadian Press reported..Sinclair called Goodall “a hero to animals and animal-rights advocates, to the environment and to my grandchildren”.At the press conference, Goodall said: “Some people torture animals. It’s because they don’t understand. Other people deliberately choose not to understand how (animals) feel pain and fear and distress. A lot of education is needed.”.“It would be just wonderful if this bill is passed, so that Canada can prove that it is on the forefront of humane treatment of animals.”.Sinclair said the bill is not aimed at causing trouble for zoos..“Zoos are potential partners in establishing legal protections for captive animals,” he said..“I like to point out that Toronto Zoo and the Calgary Zoo have taken steps already to protect these animals and ensure that they are not maintained in captivity in Canada any longer.”.Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.TWITTER: Twitter.com/nobby7694
A Manitoba senator is teaming up with the world’s most prominent expert on primates to introduce a bill to protect captive animals and ban imports of elephant ivory and hunting trophies into Canada..“I’m introducing a bill in the Senate of Canada that will establish some of the strongest animal-protection laws in the world,” Sen. Murray Sinclair told reporters Tuesday in Ottawa..“Certainly, the strongest animal-protection laws in Canada.”.Sinclair is naming his bill the Jane Goodall Act, after the primatologist who has worked for 60 years studying social and family interactions among wild chimpanzees..Sinclair’s bill would ban new captivity of great apes and elephants unless it’s licensed and for their best interests..It would also ban elephants and great apes from performing in circuses..The act would establish legal standing for the protected animals allowing courts to issue orders to move them to new care or to improve their living conditions.. Defying crackdown, hundreds march against lockdowns in Calgary .There are believed to be 20 elephants and 33 great apes living in captivity in Canada including nine chimpanzees, 18 gorillas and six orangutans, The Canadian Press reported..Sinclair called Goodall “a hero to animals and animal-rights advocates, to the environment and to my grandchildren”.At the press conference, Goodall said: “Some people torture animals. It’s because they don’t understand. Other people deliberately choose not to understand how (animals) feel pain and fear and distress. A lot of education is needed.”.“It would be just wonderful if this bill is passed, so that Canada can prove that it is on the forefront of humane treatment of animals.”.Sinclair said the bill is not aimed at causing trouble for zoos..“Zoos are potential partners in establishing legal protections for captive animals,” he said..“I like to point out that Toronto Zoo and the Calgary Zoo have taken steps already to protect these animals and ensure that they are not maintained in captivity in Canada any longer.”.Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.TWITTER: Twitter.com/nobby7694
