Mr. Speaker, I rise here this morning to present three petitions.
The first petition comes from residents primarily in the Vancouver area of British Columbia and deals with the issue of shark finning. The removal of the fin of the shark for no purpose other than to prepare a particularly rare soup is leading to the annihilation of a species. Nearly 70 million sharks are killed every year for this reason.
The petitioners are calling on the House of Commons to ban the possession, trade, distribution and sale of shark fins in Canada.