Canada's Animals need you

[EmilyB]

CANADIANS FOR EFFECTIVE ANIMAL CRUELTY LEGISLATION

Pan Canadian rallies are now confirmed Sunday March 30th, 1:00 PM in 5 cities: Montreal, Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa!

We have one week to pull off a miracle. Our mission is the communicate and educate why politicians need to SAY NO to Conservative Bill S-203. Canadians want strong animal protection legislation and S-203 is not it. Our first task is to ensure Canadian politicians and the Canadian public understand S-203 needs to be defeated BEFORE we can hope to bring in C-373 or any iteration thereof.S-203 is weak, flawed and ineffective: what good are increased penalties for animal abuse if SPCAs can't successfully prosecute animal abuse under the Criminal Code? According to SPCAs, less than 1% of animal abuse complaints lead to cruelty convictions and S-203 does nothing to address the loopholes and weaknesses in the Criminal Code that make it an ineffective tool for prosecuting animal crimes. We are therefore asking politicians to vote down S-203 and commit to bringing in effective and meaningful legislation. (thank you again WSPA). There is no point in banging our drums about C-373 until S-203 is defeated.

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When you send this email, you will receive a message with the letter that you can sign and mail as well.

Better still, CALL your MP - they don't understand what the big deal is - everyone thinks S-203 is better than nothing. Again, if this goes through, animals will be no better off than they are today, an it'll take another twenty years for changes to it. This is no time to get comfortable on the subject - we must raise attention to the seriousness of the timing on this issue. March 31st, everyone's back In-House, and S-203 is scheduled for fast tracking! come one, come all, for the animals.

Deb