Please, to protect animals, help us expose the Outdoor Caucus.
Channel: Animal Protection Party of Canada
Date: 2017-07-14

Help protect animals by driving out of Parliament the Outdoor Caucus: the ‘dirty’ caucus of anonymous MPs blocking reforms to the Canadian Criminal Code that would better protect animals from cruelty. Please, visit http://www.OutdoorCaucus.ca to get the Animal Protection Party's detailed Briefing Paper on the Outdoor Caucus.

We need your help to drive out of Parliament a ‘dirty’ caucus of MPs and Senators. It’s called the “Outdoor Caucus.” It’s been toiling in the darkest ‘back rooms’ to block humane, evidence-based, animal protection legislation since, at least, 2006. What’s a ‘dirty caucus?’ It’s one where membership is secret, which traffics in lies and misinformation, and that conspires with third parties who caucus members don’t want their constituents or fellow MPs to know about.  For the sake of the animals, we must expose, shame, and exorcise the ‘dirty’ Outdoor Caucus from Parliament. It’s urgent that we deal with the Outdoor Caucus now, before ground-breaking, animal protection legislation leaves the Senate and is taken up in the House of Commons. The two laws at risk, and that will be viciously attacked by the Outdoor Caucus, are S-203, the Ending the Captivity of Whales and Dolphins Act and S-214 the Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act. If we don’t rid Parliament of the Outdoor Caucus, these two acts are likely to suffer the same fate as Bill C-246, the Modernizing Animal Protections Act, which leaders of the Outdoor Caucus boast they killed. Bob Zimmer (Conservative MP, Prince George-Peace River) and co-chair of the Outdoor Caucus said “We came together and defeated Bill C-246, the animal rights bill, where most of the people who voted against it are Liberals. It was a group effort…”