By Jan Ditchfield | Fund Development Manager
The CFHS advocacy team quickly united Canadian animal welfare groups and mobilized a response to a Private Member’s Bill that was announced in early spring. Bill C-592, tabled by NDP MP Isabelle Morin, shocked animal welfare groups across the country when it unexpectedly contained a potentially devastating amendment that would exempt pest control, rodeo events, traditional or sport hunting or fishing and livestock raising or slaughter in an agriculture context from the Criminal Code of Canada.
The CFHS, leading a loose coalition of animal welfare groups, met with Thomas Mulcair’s office, MP Isabelle Morin and the House Leader of the NDP to outline our concerns. We were successful in securing a commitment from the NDP leadership that they did not support exemptions and that they would not allow the bill to move to second reading.
Because of your support, CFHS is launching a new and unique program called the National Centre for the Prosecution of Animal Cruelty (NCPAC). NCPAC designs and delivers training to the legal community that reflects current best practices in animal cruelty prosecution. NCPAC provides essential resources and crucial training to Crown prosecutors which supports them in effective prosecution of animal cruelty cases using the Criminal Code of Canada leading to more convictions and higher sentences.
NCPAC will launch publicly in January 2015 and deliver the first set of four one-hour training modules in February.
The advancements we are making in Animal Cruelty Legislation is possible because of the support we receive from you. Thank you!
By Barbara Cartwright | CEO
By David Dern | Marketing and Fund Development Manager
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