I am shocked and saddened…

I am shocked and saddened that Ontario is considering allowing new penned dog hunting facilities, referred to as “dog train and trial areas”, and the transfer of existing licenses. Penned dog hunting involves keeping foxes, coyotes and rabbits in enclosed pens where hunters train their dogs to hunt wildlife and run competitions. This inhumane and unethical practice subjects captive wild animals to cruelty, abuse, and suffering.
The proposed changes would be a disturbing reversal of a previous 1997 decision to phase out train and trial areas.
I don't understand how Canada, a highly evolved and progressive country, known for championing human rights, can lag so far behind in its animal welfare policies. On the Global stage, Canada received a failing grade from World Animal Protection for our continued lack of adequate animal welfare laws. Ontario should be pushing for urgent improvements in protecting its wildlife, not backtracking to the dark ages and destroying it for sport!!! I am certain that the majority of Ontarians feel the same. The government needs to listen!!!