Obviously, any legislation that implements an animal rights agenda would have the same effect.
I see that the OFAH has been fighting against a private member's bill by an NDP MP, Ms. Morin, Bill C-592.
In a letter by many other organizations which your organization signed and which you sent to all of us as parliamentarians, you said that this particular bill could “unintentionally criminalize all sorts of accepted necessary and traditional practices. Everything from food production, hunting, fishing, and trapping, research using animals, sports and entertainment, and private ownership would be impacted.”
I'd like to draw your attention to comments that two NDP MPs made on October 27, 2014.
Ms. Jean Crowder, the New Democratic MP for Nanaimo—Cowichan, said that she supports legislation in which, and I'm quoting here, “animals would be considered people and not just property.”
On the same day, Ms. Françoise Boivin, the New Democratic MP for Gatineau, Quebec, made a point that animals should be treated with, and I'm quoting here, “the same protection that we afford to children and people with mental or physical disabilities.”
I was astonished when I heard these statements in the House.
Can you talk about what a radical animal rights agenda would do to people who hunt, trap, and fish?