Comments on: Green Party candidate: Inuit seal products fine with us

By: Steynian 269 « Free Canuckistan!

Steynian 269 « Free Canuckistan! — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:54:13 +0000

[...] DEAD SEALS ROCK! Green Party candidate: Inuit seal products fine with us …. [...]

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:20:05 +0000

“Work with other levels of government to find sustainable economic alternatives for sealers and their communities and provide full compensation to sealers for lost income.”

What do you plan to do for the many other other people involved that are not sealers? Like truck drivers, students who earn money for university from sealing seal meat, and the many other spinoff jobs that are created from the seal hunt…….

By: Steve L.-

Steve L.- — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:49:56 +0000

My old friend Peter (former Liberal MP for Nunatiasuk) is doing the same spin job that Farley Mowat did after he published his book against whaling. The Inuit of the Keewatin wouldn’t let him get of a plane for a visit for fear he would cause a stop to subsistence hunting of Hudson Bay Beluga.

There is no Inuit equivalent to the seal ‘hunt’. The population density and climate differences don’t create the same conditions. Inuit usually shoot seals, often with a small caliber rifle and hopefully through the head to minimize damage to the pelt and prevent a wounded seal from diving.

Thats a darn site neater way than being killed by a polar bear.