Consolidated plain language interpretation of Ontario’s amended Dog Owners’ Liability Act (2005), courtesy of the Dog Legislation Council of Canada.Version for viewing (HTML) Version for printing (PDF) Information in these documents is intended to provide the reader with a summary of the key elements of the legislation for ease of…
Front Groups
I received a comment from Anonymous about my previous post, PETA Kills Animals!, stating that “the Center for Consumer Freedom is a front organization…(with) almost zero credibility”.I do not dispute this. Everyone has an agenda and CCF definitely has one. The following quote is from their “About Us” section: “The…
Bryant is bankrupting Ontario’s Legal Aid system
According to Legal Aid Ontario, grandiose “mega-trials” designed by Ontario’s Attorney General, Michael Bryant, are bankrupting the Legal Aid system, which can now no longer afford to provide assistance to people who truly need it.Just like with his ill-conceived dog legislation, Bryant has dived headlong into another pet project (no…
PETA Kills Animals!
It’s been almost a month since my last post. To make up for that, I’ll quote an article that’s over nine months old.The Center for Consumer Freedom has been a consistent critic of extremist animal rights organizations and has been a valuable source of information regarding not only the terrorist…
Browsing the web
I was recently browsing the web looking at various sites about breed-specific legislation and I came across a number of pages about Ontario, all of which I’d seen before and forgotten. So, for your reading pleasure, I’ve included them here.Here is a wonderful petition created by the owners of a…
Conservatives throw their support behind inadequate animal protection bill
I had started to put this together back in September and then decided to re-read bill S-213 before posting here. Since that time, Mark Holland, a Liberal from Ajax-Pickering in Ontario, introduced private member’s bill C-373 which is identical to the former C-50. Without a doubt, I would be much…
Update on Yarmouth: Somebody’s listening
YARMOUTH (NS) — Downtown business owners have voted against a dog ban proposed by town council.Read the full story here. Although this is no guarantee that the politicians won’t still do something silly, at least the people voicing the original concerns have managed to look at things logically and rationally….
Bryant: Legislation is overbroad
In a recent National Post news report, Michael Bryant, the Attorney General of Ontario, was quoted as saying that the federal government’s new dangerous offender legislation is “too broad and will catch too many people in its net without zeroing in on the truly dangerous”. Ironically, the constitutionality of Mr….
Yarmouth, NS: Not anti-breed, just anti-dog!
Sigh! Another example of the movement by politicians towards completely isolating dog owners from the rest of society. Another town to add to my list of places in Canada I choose not to visit.Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, is considering banning ALL dogs from the town’s Main Street and possibly from the…
Euthanasia: sugar coated extermination
As anyone who has read some of my articles knows, I have an aversion to the term “euthanasia” when referring to the killing of dogs that fit a certain physical profile.Michael Bryant (Attorney General of Ontario), with the support of various Animal Rights groups, has repeatedly used the word to…