By Kim Elmslie | Communications and Advocacy Manager
Currently there is a bill making its way through Parliament that seeks to amend the Criminal Code of Canada to improve protection for law enforcement animals, military animals and service animals. Bill C-35 makes it an offence to “wilfully and without lawful excuse, kill, maim, wound, poison or injury a law enforcement animal while it is aiding a law enforcement officer in carrying out that officer’s duties, a military animal while it is aiding a member of the Canadian Forces in carrying out that member’s duties or a service animals.”
Enforcement and military animals have been given the job of protecting us. A job that they do willingly and for which they sometimes make the ultimate sacrifice. Service animals are specifically trained to assist people to enrich their lives. Animals who can guide the blind, signal to the hearing impaired to provide other services to people who need them. C-35 will increase penalties against those who commit acts of cruelty towards these animals.
The Canadian Federation of Humane Societies (CFHS) is supporting Bill C-35 and working to improve animal cruelty laws across Canada. We recently presented to the Justice and Human Rights Committy in support of this bill.
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