Animal Cruelty Legislation

Much of the work we need to do together this year is focused on legislation. And as politicians gaze out their windows on Parliament Hill, they’re starting to dream of summer recess. They’re making plans to return to their home ridings, and spending time with their family and friends.

What does that mean for us? It means we need to double-down and work extra hard to push necessary changes to legislation before summer recess starts in the last week of June.

We can’t take our foot off the gas, and we need your help to make change.

Your support will help us move the needle on three important pieces of legislation:

• Bill S-214, the Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act, would end the practice of testing cosmetics on animals in our country. New cosmetics manufactured or developed by using animal testing would also be banned from sale nationally.

• We are also advocating for the passage of Bill S-203, the Ending the Captivity of Whales and Dolphins Act. It is far past time to outlaw the captivity of dolphins, whales, and porpoises in our country. This Bill would do just that. We also must keep an eye on Bill C-68 which was just introduced in the House of Commons that promises to address some of these issues but must be strengthened to be truly effective.

• Finally, we need to keep up the pressure on our federal government to act on their promise of criminalizing bestiality and forced animal fighting. When the Modernizing Animal Protections Act (Bill C-246) was defeated in Parliament, we were promised these protections would find a home in other parts of the law. So far, that promise hasn’t been kept.

Your donation allows us to fight for these critical legal changes.

Thank you for being such a wonderful ally in the fight to end animal cruelty. I know that together we can make great strides to create a more humane Canada in 2018.