Letters to the Editor, May 22, 2024
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RULE CHANGE
In 2020, Ontario passed Bill 156, the Security from Trespass and Protecting Food Safety Act, a dangerous law designed to shut down undercover investigations in farms and slaughterhouses, and limit peaceful protests where advocates bear witness to animals in transport trucks en route to slaughter. The animal agriculture industry lobbied heavily for the legislation to protect its profits, and to keep rampant animal cruelty hidden from public view. Last year, Animal Justice went to court to try to get the law struck down. At the beginning of April, Justice Markus Koehnen, of the Superior Court, ruled that multiple provisions of the regulation are unconstitutional as they violate the right to freedom of expression guaranteed under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Those provisions included the ones that outlawed undercover investigations into the animal agriculture industry in Ontario. Undercover investigators and whistleblowers are showing us the truth about what’s going on in the brutal and secretive animal agriculture industry. Instead of trying to make the industry better for animals, it seems governments are just trying to be better at covering up animal cruelty. This is wrong, and we are thankful Ontario is the first province to find out that the ag-gag laws they tried to put into place are now considered unconstitutional. As Ontarians against animal cruelty in agriculture, we implore Alberta, Manitoba, P.E.I, and the federal government to follow suit and strike down their ag-gag laws before a court forces them to as unconstitutional.
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Davis and Rhonda Costas-Mirza
Toronto
(It’s highly likely the other provinces will have to change their law based on the Ontario ruling)
TRUDEAU’S MERRY-GO-ROUND
It should come as no surprise that, in Trudeau’s bizarro-style world, good guys continue to be subjected to reprimand and expulsion while bad guys remain free to continue their shenanigans. The same mindset is now commonplace on the streets of our once great nation. I can almost hear Trudeau’s ‘Na Na Na Na Na’ echoing from Parliament Hill. It’s high time to get off this mindless merry-go-round, folks. At least carousels are fun.
David Gibb
Seeley’s Bay, Ont.
(Trudeau has been making it up as he goes along for some time now. The problem is he’s created so much damage in this country, it’s hard to fathom how to reverse it. One thing will at least start it — an election)
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