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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1969-04-03, Page 11f60 41PVPIG BALESRV ICE: ''try thi v AE,,,k,,0010171„ AR ' Telephong: • WOWS; DOMINION', HARDWAR! $EAFORTH PHONE 5274160 WARNER :O01441NOS. of the BLYTH SINGER, CEtti 'rRE; Will „.0,4 In yOulO :Are 91.410ch Wee; for;• your corrignititte4t • No Smoke, No Odour Shown here areamembers of Verne Scott's Industrial 1968-69. Seaforth IndOstriall Hockeyr Champs Powell, Garry Betties, Brian Phillips, Jim" Watson, Jim For- FUEL CHIEF Hockey League championship team. The team defeathd Ron rest, Jack Ungarian, Brian Flannigan; (kneeling) Ken Mc141- Dale's team in the final game of a best of three series last wain, Verne Scott, Jerry Cooper, George Reeves, George Gar- Thursday to win the championship. Shown are (standing) Ray rick and Bob Brugger. (Pheft. by Phillips). w. HEATING OIL Walden & Broadfoot Phone 527-1224 — Seaforth Discuss Merits .. of Bill 73 Humane Society... • • • I Invest Securely in a 34% GUARANTEED TRUST Certificate 1 to' 5 Years Contact John A. Cardno -S E A F O.RT H Representing: HlirOil & Erie Sterling Trusts Guaranty Trusts Crown Mist Co. . of Canada Victoria and Grey Trust Co. • The Government of Ontario has introduced kegislation which will have the effect, of destroy- ing the; humane movement In Ontario as' we now know it. ' At present,' the Ontario J Hu- mane Society has the authority to ;investigate, complaints of cruelty .and neglect of animals. The Society' employs Inspectors throughout the Province to car- ry out this task. ., • The, Government intends 'to • limit the authority of these In- spectors in such a way that for all practical purposes, they will be helpless. Apart ironi regilir ing . all Inspectors to obtain special warraots before making any investigation, the Govern- ment is also proposing ,to set up ,a Board to review these officers' actions "on complaints from the public". There is no doubt that this 'will so intimidate Inspec- tors' that:they will be unable .to carry out their joh. In addition, ,the legislation, will force all Humane Societies to surrender all unclaimed animals,•not only to research institutes but to dealers in animals for research. In other words; any private ani- mal dealer operating for profit will have the right to enter any shelter and demand any un- claimed animal., Even worse, the Government legislation specifically protects dealers' establishments against any investigation or inspection by Inspectors of the Ontario Humane Society, Remember, these are the premises that have led to so many prosedutions and convictions fora neglect in past years. There are over, 700 farms in Ontario where pregnant mares are kept under inadequate con- ditionS, deprived of exercise, de- prive.d of - an "adequate diet, and Which produce countless thou- sands of foals every' year, the majority of which are weaned at a very tender age and trans- ported long distances before be- ing sold. The. legislation will classify these premises as "re- search premises!' and protect them.against' any inspection by the Society. The Ontario Humane Society does not release animals alive ,for research. Our constitution and by-laws 'prohibit this. This clause of our constitution has been ratified from time to time, only as recently as 1967. There seems little 'doubt, therefore, that the Ontario Humane Soc- iety will refuse.to , comply with the Government legislation re- quiring them to -surrender these animals. The only alternative left would appear to be for the Society to close down its ani- mal shelters or turn them over to Municipalities for operation as Dog Pounds. There are 28 mod- em shelters in the Province to- Huron F Those of us who make our , living from the raising and car- ing for farm animals have been severely criticized . by the On- tario Humane Society for our support of bills 73 and 74. We- think it should' be pointed out that, farmers more than- any .other groop of :people are inter- ested in the humane treatment of animals. Most farmers rare naturally humane to animals be-, cause they like .' animals but farmers also • know that neglect and cruelty to, animals never pays' a profit. .In the- minority of cases where" neglect and cruelty is observed the problem can often be ,traced to financial difficul- ties, mental health problems or just plain lack of managing abi- lity. Under present legislation we believe the Humane Sopiety can not, or does not, deal effective- ly NvithNthis problem in the rur- al areas where people generally know each other.' There are several reasons why this is so, first, the Society gen- erally disregards the problem of the people involved, who in many cases require help as much as the animals. In fact through the Society policy -of wide publicity the people in- volved are often harmed rather than helped. The Society relys - • day and a conipetent force of uniformed InspecforS. ThiS or- ganization has been built up over the last 50 years by the dedicated efforts of countless thousands of voluntary workers. It would be a tragedy if the Government by this thoughtless, ill considered action were to destroy this organization. , The research procurement 'legislation is a drastic invasion of civil rights and should be re- jected on these grounds alone. T. I. Hughes, General Manager. of A... on informers in the community in . order • to get reasonable grounds to enter premises.: Many animals suffer needlessly because the people of the-area will not 'inform on a person they knoW because of their fear of the consequences to the peo- ple,. overrules their concern for the :neglected animals. Only af- ter prolonged cruelty and neg- lect has ,taken place and when the situation has reached criti- cal dimensions is the Society called. In these situations the Society has become vertually in- effective in the prevention of cruelty. Secondly -in our agricultural development, of programs -such as the pregnant mare operations and other production line,ineth- ods of caring for animals, the premises are inaccessible to neighbors and the general" pub- therefore 'if neglect and cruelty were a problem in these premises it would go undetect- ed unless the operator informed on himself, which is'unlikely. - We therefore, support bill 73 which would make it possible for routine. inspection of these premises by a government in- spector, which is a step in the right direction towards preven- ting neglect and cruelty before it reaches the critical stage. ' We. also support bill 74 which ,would require the Society to have a veterinary present be- fore seizure could take' place and would require the Society to have a search warrant before entering the premises. We think that this legislation would be some help 'in making sure some" of the problems of the people involved are riot made worse. 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