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animal cruelty laws

Liberal MP's Animal Cruelty Bill Defeated

He says animal welfare laws haven’t been substantively changed since 1892.
By Ryan Maloney, The Huffington Post Canada

We Need To Protect Canada's Animals And Pass Bill C-246

For the last 17 years, advocates have been trying to effect legislation that blasts us out of our sad, inexcusable reliance on the 1892 Act For Animals, into 2016. This year, Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, MP, has brought forward Bill C-246 "Modernizing the Animal Protections Act."
M. Michelle Nadon