In some instances, there has been video produced of a seal purportedly being skinned alive. In the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, there was an instance where a particular group.... They're very difficult to identify because of the circumstances in which they're working, but a particular group came to the hunt purporting to be a hunting advocacy TV show. They hired sealers to take them out on the ice. They then asked the sealers to engage in hunting activity, skinning the pelt and so on. The image that was then portrayed.... It turned out that the film crew were not hunting advocates; they were working on contract for animal rights groups, and they took the image in a completely different context from what reality dictated and then projected the image as if animals were being skinned alive.
There is a swimming reflex, as with chickens. When chickens are beheaded, they will continue to move about for a period of approximately ten minutes, I understand, and there is a swimming reflex in seals that will continue to cause a flutter, a twitch, a nervous twitch, after the fact.
That's a really important issue, because again it plays to what we are all facing as parliamentarians--what is the fact, what is the reality, and what is the interest of someone who may have a different point of view or different interest.
On the issue of food safety--