Put Your Keyboard to Work for the Seals

Stockwell Day - Minister of Int'l Trade
Keith Ashfield - Minister of Fisheries and Oceans
Stephen Harper - Prime Minister
Diane Ablonczy - Minister of State (Small Business, Tourism)
Hon. Peter Kent - Minister of Environment
Hon. Gerry Byrne - Fisheries Critic, Liberal Party
Hon. Fin Donnelly - Fisheries Critic, NDP
Janice Harvey - Fisheries Critic, Green Party
Hon. Percy Paris - Minister of Tourism, Nova Scotia
Hon. Darrell Dexter - Premier, Nova Scotia
Hon. Sterling Belliveau - Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture and Environment Minister, Nova Scotia

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Dear [Decision Maker]

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I am appalled that the government of Canada continues to allow (and even promote) the killing of hundreds of thousands of harp seal pups and tens of thousands of grey seal pups each year. This senseless killing is barbaric, and the 2011 quota is outrageous. The images that I have seen sicken me. What's more, the seal 'hunt' is putting the species in jeopardy. Climate change is making the sea ice that seal pups need unreliable. The Precautionary Approach to wildlife management requires that you end the massacres now. Seal-watching tours could bring in millions of dollars to the Canadian economy, but I will not visit Canada as long as the seal killing continues. I would also like you to know that I am participating in the boycott of Canadian seafood. I urge you to stop the slaughter of seals and instead begin to protect seals and the ocean ecosystems of which they are an important part.

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