Kaitlyn Mitchell
Kaitlyn Mitchell is a lawyer with Animal Justice Canada, Canada’s leading national animal law charity.
The CFIA remains tight-lipped on when—if ever—the ban will be replaced with permanent measures. What was supposed to be a reactionary, emergency measure appears dangerously close to becoming permanent policy.
Dec. 16 has come and gone, and yet a bill to ban the export of horses for slaughter overseas continues to languish in the Senate.
Rather than passing an ag gag law to reduce transparency and target compassionate citizens who document animal suffering, Parliamentarians should focus on the real threat: the harmful underbelly of an industry lacking oversight of both biosecurity practices and the treatment of farmed animals.