The interesting thing, paralleling those statistics, is the fact that there are over 2,000 Ontario SPCA orders issued to animal owners in an attempt to improve animal welfare. Presumably, a ratio of those would be offences that could be charged if the wording were different in the Criminal Code. I'm not suggesting that it would be 2,000, but it would certainly be something more than the 355, for instance, we had in 2006.
On February 5th, 2008. See this statement in context.