Mexican Animal Rights Groups' Complaints Against Seal Hunt Dismissed
Posted on: Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 15:00 CDT
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
MONTREAL - A North American environmental commission has dismissed an application by two Mexican animal rights groups that claimed the seal hunt violates an international agreement on environmental protection.
A submission by the groups asserted that Ottawa was not enforcing its own laws with respect to the harp seal hunt in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and along the Newfoundland and Labrador coast.
Specifically, they said Canada was not enforcing regulations prescribing the methods and instruments that are allowed to kill seals.
The Commission for Environmental Co-operation recently ruled that it couldn't consider the submission because it does not assert a failure to effectively enforce environmental law.
The commission was established by Canada, the United States and Mexico to address environmental issues, with a focus on those arising from the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Under its rules anyone can submit a claim alleging that NAFTA countries have failed to effectively enforce environmental law.
Source: Canadian Press
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