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A new poll released by the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies (CFHS) and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) found that Canadians want effective and modernized legislation to protect animals from criminal acts of cruelty;
An overwhelming 85% of Canadians support legislation that will make it easier for law enforcement agencies to prosecute those who commit criminal acts of cruelty to wild or stray animals.
Three quarters of Canadians support changing the law so that animal cruelty crimes are no longer treated as property offences. In fact people living in rural areas, people who fish or hunt and people who traditionally vote Conservative are even more likely to support this change.
67% of Canadians would look more favourably upon a local candidate who supported changes that would make it easier to convict those guilty of serious animal abuse. The response to this question from people who fish or hunt regularly was 74%.
On December 7th the Senate passed Bill S-213 to amend the animal cruelty provisions of the Criminal Code. This bill makes no changes to the archaic, inadequate offences that have existed since 1892.
*The national survey by SES Research of 1,002 Canadians was conducted from November 5th to 9th, 2006. It is considered accurate to within plus or minus 3.1%, 19 times out 20.
