Seal Slaughter: The Hypocrisy of the Canadian Government. By Paul Watson.

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The Hypocrisy of the Canadian Government

Fri, 13 May 2005 11:41:59 -0700

 

J’Accuse

 

By Paul Watson. www.seashepherd.com

 

 

The Hypocrisy of the Canadian Government

 

 

The Canadian government has been making

plenty of accusations against seal defenders. They

have even gone so far as to fabricate lies that they

actually then appear to believe.

 

For example, Canadian Minister of Natural

Resources John Efford debated Captain Paul Watson on

the seal slaughter in April.

 

Captain Watson was on his ship at sea off

the coast of Newfoundland and Efford was at his desk

in Ottawa.

 

Efford is the former Newfoundland Minister

of Fisheries who publicly has advocated the

extermination of the seals.

 

During the debate, Efford was not

interested in talking science or facts concerning the

seal hunt. He did not want to talk about seals at all.

Instead he accused Captain Watson of raising millions

of dollars and stuffing it in offshore bank accounts.

He then called Captain Watson a coward for refusing to

debate him.

 

Captain Watson said that he had never

refused to debate the Minister and demanded that

Efford set a time and place and he would meet him

there. Efford ignored the challenge and went on to

talk about how seal defenders were gorging themselves

on lamb and veal on the Farley Mowat while protesting

the killing of seals and called the hunt opponents

hypocrites.

 

When Captain Watson pointed out that the

Farley Mowat was a vegan ship and meat and fish were

not served in the ship’s galley, Efford plucked

ignored that response and immediately plucked another

fabrication from his propaganda kit. Captain Watson

also demanded that the Minister produce evidence

before making accusations of hoarding money in

offshore accounts. " Do you think, " said Captain Watson

to Efford, " that it is responsible for a Federal

Minister to be making unsubstantiated accusations?

 

Efford refused to answer.

 

It was a bizarre debate. What struck

Captain Watson about Efford is that he appeared to

actually believe everything he was saying.

 

Captain Watson pointed out that Sea

Shepherd finances were an open book and that the Sea

Shepherd Conservation Society was not a wealthy

organization. In fact it is a rather small

organization with fewer than one million dollars in

contributions annually and most of the budget is spent

on the operation of our ships.

 

Captain Watson also pointed out that it

was interesting that such bogus accusations were being

made by a Minister of the most scandal ridden and

corrupt government in Canadian history. Canadians knew

what Captain Watson was referring to without him

having to explain the details.

 

For non-Canadians, this is a little primer

on the current elected members of the Canadian

government.

 

 

 

Can you imagine working for a company that has a

little more than 300 employees and has the following

statistics:

 

30 have been accused of spousal abuse.

9 have been arrested for fraud,

14 have been accused of writing bad cheques.

95 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2

businesses.

4 have done time for assault.

55 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit.

12 have been arrested on drug related charges.

4 have been arrested for shoplifting.

16 are currently defendants in lawsuits.

62 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last

year.

 

 

 

Such is the record of the 301 Members of the Canadian

Parliament.

 

 

 

This same Parliament unanimously endorses

the annual slaughter of seals. In other words we can

find 62 drunk drivers in the Parliament of Canada and

not one compassionate defender of seals. One third of

all Members of Parliament have bankrupted a business

and now are in charge of managing Canadian resources

including the fisheries.

 

 

 

The statistics listed above do not even

include the $100 million Canadian Unity slush fund

that the Liberal government of Canada used to pay

bribes and provide “incentives” for Liberal members of

Parliament, including shopping sprees for the wife of

former Prime Minister Jean Chretien.

 

 

 

The good news is that The Liberal

government of Prime Minister Paul Martin is not

expected to survive next week’s vote of confidence on

the Canadian budget. It looks like there will be a

Canadian Federal election this summer. The bad news is

that the same group of losers may all get re-elected.

Why because the government of Canada simply does not

attract people with the education, skills and talent

to hold down a real job.

 

 

 

However, the election will be an

opportunity to see where the candidates stand on the

issue of killing seals.

 

 

 

Of all the political parties in Canada

only the Federal Green Party has a policy of

opposition to the seal hunt.

 

 

 

Captain Paul Watson said, “I am not

speaking for Sea Shepherd because this is a political

issue but I am speaking as a Canadian when I say that

Canadians should not contribute to or support

pro-sealing candidates and should encourage those

candidates who are prepared to oppose this obscenity

that has given Canada such a bad reputation around the

world.”

 

 

 

Paul Watson elaborated by saying, “I know

that governments should not be elected or defeated on

single issues but the seal slaughter is an issue that

reflects the morality of the candidates involved. What

kind of person could endorse the senseless, cruel

clubbing of helpless baby seals? The answer is the

same type of person who abuse their spouses, write bad

checks, drive under the influence, commit assault and

fraud and run businesses into the ground – in other

words, the irresponsible and egotistical Parliamentary

members who have so shamefully sold out Canada to line

their own pockets at the expense of the people and the

nation. These are not the kind of people we need

protecting our forests, our fisheries, our wilderness

and the economy. Unfortunately these are the kind of

people we’ve got. It’s time to throw the bums out and

bring in more responsible and more compassionate

people with integrity and a sense of responsibility to

the future.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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