{"id":73718,"date":"2021-08-20T11:44:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T15:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=73718"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:54:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:54:51","slug":"coulter-and-sankoff-the-sorry-state-of-animal-protection-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/08\/coulter-and-sankoff-the-sorry-state-of-animal-protection-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"COULTER and SANKOFF: The sorry state of animal protection in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kendra Coulter, Associate Professor of Labour Studies and Chancellor\u2019s Chair for Research Excellence at Brock University, and Peter Sankoff, Professor in the Faculty of Law at the Univeristy of Alberta, had a piece recently published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/contributors\/2021\/08\/20\/the-sorry-state-of-animal-protection-in-canada.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Toronto Star<\/a><\/em> about the ongoing neglect of animal welfare in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>They write:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cImagine a country without national legislation dedicated to animals\u2019 welfare.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>A nation with no federal cabinet member or politician assigned responsibility and resources for promoting animals\u2019 well-being.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>A country that has no national hotline for reporting suspected animal cruelty, or targeted public investment for investigations into crimes against animals.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Actually, there\u2019s no need to imagine this scenario \u2014 you\u2019re living in that country.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Two-thirds of Canadian households now include animals, and every community on these lands includes other species. Polling regularly shows that a fierce opposition to animal cruelty is one of the few values that unites Canadians from all backgrounds, provinces and political persuasions. Yet our federal government is not doing enough for animals. In fact, it doesn\u2019t do much to protect animals at all.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Canada has long fared poorly in global rankings,\u00a0earning a D on the World Animal Protection Index, well behind countries like Sweden, Denmark, Austria, the Netherlands, Switzerland, India and Mexico. And the federal government has shown little interest in changing the status quo.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/contributors\/2021\/08\/20\/the-sorry-state-of-animal-protection-in-canada.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kendra Coulter, Associate Professor of Labour Studies and Chancellor\u2019s Chair for Research Excellence at Brock University, and Peter Sankoff, Professor in the Faculty of Law at The Univeristy of Alberta, had a piece recently published in The Toronto Star about the ongoing neglect of animal welfare in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,38],"tags":[110,522,3126,3892],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73723,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73718\/revisions\/73723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}