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The CFHS promotes the enactment of federal, provincial and municipal legislation that protects animals from cruelty and provides a framework to ensure animals are treated humanely and with respect. Click on the links below to read more about our current efforts in this area.
Please see the menu items to the left to learn more about key legal issues affecting animals in Canada.
The CFHS has been calling on the government to amend the animal cruelty sections of the Criminal Code of Canada for more than 25 years. In 1999, the government launched a consultation process to gather input on what changes were needed to the animal cruelty provisions, which were originally enacted in 1892. In December 1999, then Justice Minister Anne McLellan tabled Bill C-17 in the House ... Continue reading: Criminal Code Amendments
These questions are posed relevant to Bill C-229, but would also apply to all the bills proposed in the House of Commons to amend the animal cruelty sections of the Criminal Code since 1999. I am an avid hunter and also enjoy fishing. Will this legislation make hunting and fishing an animal cruelty offence? Will boiling a live lobster be considered an animal cruelty offence? Will ... Continue reading: Commonly asked questions about the amendments
