In just 5 years (from 2012 – 2016) Canadian researchers took over 86,000 of our pet cats and dogs for use in experiments. (Source: ccac.ca)
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pets used in research
Ask your Premier to stop the sale of pet cats and dogs to research. Personalized, hand-written letters are best, or you can use our draft letter below to send an email.
PREMIER JASON KENNEY
307 LEGISLATURE BUILDING
10800 – 97 AVENUE
EDMONTON, ALBERTA T5K 2B6
780-427-2251 (Edmonton) / 310-0000 (toll-free in AL) / 780-427-2711 (outside AL)
Email: premier@gov.ab.ca
PREMIER JOHN HORGAN
WEST ANNEX
PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS
VICTORIA BC V8V 1X4
250-387-1715
Email: premier@gov.bc.ca
PREMIER BRIAN PALLISTER
ROOM 204 LEGISLATIVE BUILDING
450 BROADWAY
WINNIPEG, MB R3C 0V8
204-945-3714
Email: premier@leg.gov.mb.ca
PREMIER BLAINE HIGGS
CHANCERY PLACE, FLOOR 6
P. O. BOX 6000
FREDERICTON, NB E3B 5H1
506-453-2144
Email: premier@gnb.ca
PREMIER DWIGHT BALL
8TH FLOOR, EAST BLOCK
CONFEDERATION BUILDING
P.O. BOX 8700
ST. JOHN’S, NL A1B 4J6
709-729-3570
Email: dwightball@gov.nl.ca
STEPHEN MCNEIL
PREMIER OF NOVA SCOTIA
ONE GOVERNMENT PLACE, 7TH FLOOR
1700 GRANVILLE ST
PO BOX 726
HALIFAX, NS B3J 2T3
902-424-6600
Email: PREMIER@novascotia.ca
DOUG FORD
PREMIER OF ONTARIO
LEGISLATIVE BUILDING
QUEEN’S PARK
TORONTO, ON M7A 1A1
416-325-1941
Email: premier@ontario.ca
DENNIS KING
OFFICE OF THE PREMIER
5TH FLOOR SOUTH, SHAW BUILDING
95 ROCHFORD STREET
PO BOX 2000
CHARLOTTETOWN, PE C1A 7N8
902-368-4400
Email: premier@gov.pe.ca
PREMIER MINISTRE FRANCOIS LEGAULT
ÉDIFICE HONORÉ-MERCIER, 3E ÉTAGE
835, BOUL. RENÉ-LÉVESQUE EST
QUÉBEC, QC G1A 1B4
418-643-5321
SCOTT MOE
PREMIER OF SASKATCHEWAN
226 LEGISLATIVE BUILDING
REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN S4S 0B3
306-787-9433
Email: premier@gov.sk.ca
PREMIER CAROLINE COCHRANE
P.O. BOX 1320
YELLOWKNIFE, NT X1A 2L9
867-767-9000
Email: premier@gov.nt.ca
HONOURABLE JOE SAVIKATAAQ
PREMIER OF NUNAVUT
P.O. BOX 1200, 926 FEDERAL ROAD
IQALUIT, NU X0A 0H0
867-975-5050
Email: JSAVIKATAAQ@GOV.NU.CA
PREMIER SANDY SILVER
YUKON GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
2071 SECOND AVENUE
BOX 2703
WHITEHORSE, YUKON Y1A 2C6
867-393-7007
Email: premier@gov.yk.ca
This is the sample letter for you to cut and paste into an email to your Premier:
Dear Premier,
Subject: Our pets need your help! Please stop researchers from taking our lost pet cats and dogs for experimentation
In just 5 years (from 2012 – 2016), over 86,000 pet dogs and cats from across Canada, were used for research in Canada. They’re subjected to a life of pain and suffering and eventually killed. Families search for their lost pets – not knowing that researchers have taken them. It’s not fair and it needs to end.
The Canadian Federation of Humane Societies supports our No Pets in Research position (Pierre Sadik, Policy and Legislative Affairs, CFHS December 15, 2017). And, we’d like you to support it as well and use your power to stop researchers acquiring pets in your province.
Researchers will tell you that the Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC) is responsible for the welfare of animals used in research in Canada. However, the CCAC is a voluntary body. Privately funded research and testing facilities are not required to join the CCAC and therefore they do not report the number and species of animals used, the purpose for which they are used and the level of invasiveness of the research. In addition, despite receiving public funds, the CCAC is exempt from Access to Information and provides very little information on its web site about registered research institutions and the requirement to reduce the numbers of animals used. In fact, as opposed to reducing the number of animals, the CCAC oversaw an increase of over one million animals from 2008 to 2009, a number which has persisted every year since. The number of pet dogs and cats used in research has increased as well. The CCAC is made up of 22 member organizations, the vast majority having interests in animal based research. All members of the CCAC Animal Care Committees are subject to confidentiality agreements and have no avenue to resolve disputes.
Several countries including Great Britain, Sweden and the Netherlands have prohibited pets in research. And, progressive Canadians cities like Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, Oshawa, Clarington and Vancouver have also banned the practice. In Ontario, many cities are defying the law – Ontario’s Animals for Research Act – that mandates the sale of pet cats and dogs to researchers.
In the United States, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, John Hopkins University and all New York City, Boston and Washington D.C. based research institutions do not use pet dogs and cats in research. There is no justification for researchers taking our lost pets.
Public trust and confidence in our pounds and shelters and our entire pet rescue networks is severely compromised when the public can’t trust municipalities to care for their lost pets.
Please use your position to ensure that our lost pet dogs and cats find loving homes and are not incarcerated in laboratory cages for cruel experiments.
I look forward to your response.
Thank you!
Respectfully,