Thank you, Mr. Chair.
And thank you for coming. It was a very good presentation, and I appreciated it very much.
Let me ask a couple of questions. I have two unrelated questions.
A National Post article in June 2005--you may have seen it--by Mary Richardson says:
As a Canadian expert in humane slaughter, and past chair of both the Animal Welfare Committee of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association and the Animal Care Review Board with the Solicitor General of Ontario, I was asked by the HSUS to review their 2005 seal hunt footage.
Without a doubt, what I witnessed was clear evidence of unacceptable and illegal cruelty to animals.
She goes on then, in a paragraph I won't read, to describe the practices that she thought were clearly illegal. She says:
These are not humane ways to die as defined by the Criminal Code of Canada.
As veterinarians, with respect to the death of an animal, what would you say “humane” means?