US businesswoman offers Canada 16 million USD to end seal hunt

AFP ^ | 4/5/6

[Graybeard58]

Wonder what she would pay me to promise not to hunt seals?

[50sDad]

And will you do this every year, ma'am?

[presidio9]

KATHY KANGAS

[oldleft]

Why hasn't anyone offered me $16 million to stop my nightly cockroach hunt?

[SENTINEL]

Seems fair enough...

It's pretty rare that a liberal would put her money where her mouth is.

[noobiangod]

Good now throw that treehugger in prison for attempting to bribe an elected official.

[Graybeard58]

But, Steven Outhouse, a spokesman for Fisheries Minister

I do believe I would change my name if I were Steven

[brownsfan]

Canadians to Kangas: We LIKE hunting seals.

[sure_fine]

why can't the beeetch adopt (financially) a bunch of under privileged AMERICAN kids and put them through good schools

[layman]

It seems to me that giving 16 million to someone named Steven Outhouse is a lot like throwing your money down the toilet.

[PalestrinaGal0317]

I'm sorry, call me a wuss. Clubbing an animal to death for its potential as a fashion accessory is cruel and sick. This women was willing to put her money where her mouth is; good for her.

[ClaireSolt]

It irks me when the little, highly developed Connecticut busybodies want to prevent development elsewhere be it Alaska or Newfoundland. MYOB!

[Paperdoll]

It would seem the "Connecticut business woman" is intent on disturbing the balance of nature by protecting seals and sea lions, therefore destroying the fisheries in both countries. Today it is "politically correct" to destroy all that is good, for good is a danger to evil, and evil is bent on having it's own way!

[ConsentofGoverned]

dang, better make sure the $$$ are in the bank before agreeing much like mr Turner's billion to UN seems he has forgot to pay up due to unforeseen drop in stock he owned..

[PeterPrinciple]

This women was willing to put her money where her mouth is; good for her.

All she said was words. She hasn't put her money anywhere. If she puts it in a escrow account, then I might believe her.

[Integrityrocks]

"The annual seal hunt earns about 16.5 million Canadian dollars (14.2 million dollars) in commercial meat and pelts for thousands of local fisherman, plus another four million dollars for related industries, officials said."

As usual these people just don't get it. Its not JUST the money. These people are out there doing something to make a living. We've done enough to create a "welfare" society; farmers that get paid not to farm, natives that get nothing but handouts from the "white man's" guilt, welfare for single girls pumping out babies and on and on. I applaud these people for not jumping for the money to sit around and get fat and angry.

[Sax]

Outhouse: "Sorry Ms. Kangas, some folks like leather coats and hamburgers, and some like fur coats and seal meat. We manage our resources responsbily and we'd also like to offer our condolenses that you grew up learning about nature through Disney movies instead of National Geographic."

[nina0113]

Why hasn't anyone offered me $16 million to stop my nightly cockroach hunt?

Nobody wants a coat made from THOSE skins.

[L98Fiero]

"Clubbing an animal to death for its potential as a fashion accessory is cruel and sick."

I didn't see anything in the article about "clubbing" but short of that method of death, how is it any different than any other animals we humans use as resources?