G7 to get real taste of what sealing means to the North

The Globe and Mail ^ | Tuesday, Feb. 02 | Bill Curry

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The chairs the ministers will use during a private meeting in Nunavut's legislature are upholstered in shiny sealskin. The servers will sport sealskin hairpins. Seal vests and mitts will be given as gifts. And Saturday's evening feast at the local school will be an Inuit “country” supper of meats and fish from the land and sea, some of it served raw. Seal is on the menu.

Take that, PETA. ~snip~ The Inuit have so far lost out to the high-profile campaigns of animal rights groups like PETA, who make effective use of celebrity supporters such as Paul McCartney. ~snip~

“We hope that [the visit] will be the event of a lifetime for a lot of the delegates, knowing that they have never been this far north in their lives, and experiencing first-hand what Inuit are all about,” Ms. Aariak said.

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But federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq, an Inuit woman who represents Nunavut in the House of Commons, says visitors should learn that seal is the local, affordable option in the North, and that it is no different when southerners eat turkey and beef.

“It's absolutely an opportunity to educate the international community,” she said, expressing her frustration with the anti-seal campaigns. “They're protesting because some rock star laid on the ice with a seal. … I'm frankly sick and tired of being a target of international organizations.”

“It is doubtful that a wild seal living in the Arctic would envy the life prospects of a factory-raised chicken,” she wrote.

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The True North.
Strong, and Free.
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Last month, PETA claimed credit for an incident in Burlington, Ont., when federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea got hit in the face with a pie.

The argument took a yet more bizarre turn a few days later in St. John's, Nfld., when a PETA protester in a seal costume was pied in the face by a counterprotester dressed as a dog.

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[Question Liberal Authority]

Clubbing a wild seal on the head requires almost no carbon emissions. So you’d think the environmentalists would be all for it.

[Dr. Sivana]

Clubbing a wild seal on the head requires almost no carbon emissions

Arguably, you should get a carbon credit once the seal stops breathing.