Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will be very brief with my comments because I recognize that the time is very short. Mr. Speaker, I want to indicate my full support for this motion, and I commend the Member for Iqaluit for developing it and bringing it forth to the House. I find it is critical for us to be able to ensure that we do express some discontentment with regard to the campaign and tactics that the International Fund for Animal Welfare and other animal welfare organizations are having on northern people, on the way that they are campaigning on our livelihood. I also feel that the media and the whole movement of these animal welfare groups, forget to go look into malls that have aquariums with fish swimming around in it or small animals caged.

They do not think of the zoos down south and how animals are caged in. They do not think of the type of affects that that has on those animals, and it irritates me that they are so quick and ready to campaign around fur shops. I find that the affect on the north has been devastating, particularly in the eastern Arctic, with which I really sympathize with regard to the seal industry, so I want to indicate to this House my full support for this much-needed motion. Thank you.

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