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There will soon be stricter rules for dog breeders to put an end to problems associated with too much cross-breeding or abuse of dogs making them threats when they reach the marketplace.
Asked about how victims of dog attacks will react to his decision, Coiteux said their testimony moved him.
“That is why we are not dropping the project,” he said, noting the bill gives municipalities the power to seize and if necessary euthanize dogs that attack people or order people with dangerous dogs to get rid of them.
It also includes strict rules about keeping dogs on leashes in public places when children are present.
In Montreal, reaction from Mayor Valérie Plante’s administration was positive.
“We are pleased. They did their work, they met the experts and they came to the same conclusions that we did, that there is no scientific basis for legislating against a specific breed,”
said Montreal councillor Craig Sauvé, member of the city’s executive committee responsible for animal services.
“What’s more, even if we did it, it’s very difficult to apply it, as we’ve seen in other cities in Canada. Ottawa was mentioned today.”
Montreal’s short-lived pit-bull ban, instituted under previous mayor Denis Coderre in 2016, was scrapped in December by the new Projet Montréal administration voted in last fall.
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