Health Canada says it won t consider animal suffering in strychnine review
A female wolf, left, and male wolf roam the tundra near The Meadowbank Gold Mine in Nunavut on Wednesday, March 25, 2009. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette February 02, 2021 - 1:36 PM
OTTAWA - Animal suffering won t be considered when a Health Canada agency next reviews licences for poisons used to kill predators, the department has ruled.
In a decision released this week, Health Canada says the Pest Management Regulatory Agency won t include humaneness in how it assesses toxins such as strychnine. Health Canada will not be taking steps towards incorporating humaneness considerations into the pesticide risk assessment framework, said the department s ruling.
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There are currently no internationally recognized science-based parameters to evaluate the humaneness of pesticides.
Sara Dubois, a wildlife biologist with the British Columbia SPCA, said that s not true. University labs have extensive animal welfare protocols and Australia and New Zealand have also moved toward such criteria. An absence of information doesn t mean that pain and suffering doesn t happen, she said. That s the frustrating part.
The decision on strychnine, compound 1080 and cyanide came after more than two years of public consultations sparked by a letter signed by 50 scientists and animal-welfare advocates from across Canada and three countries.
More than 4,000 letters were received, most form letters from letter-writing campaigns. Non-governmental organizations participated as did provinces and municipalities.