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Carney’s Canada turns its back on Beluga Whales

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13.10.2025

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The fate of thirty beluga whales at Marineland should shame this country. These magnificent creatures — creatures born and bred in Canada — are now trapped in bureaucratic limbo because of moral posturing in Ottawa and political maneuvering at Queen’s Park. Their lives hang in the balance, while politicians congratulate themselves for being “compassionate.”

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A reader named Robert recently wrote to me, disturbed by what he called “the government’s prohibition of beluga whales and dolphins entertaining the masses.” He reminded me that the federal Fisheries Minister, Joanne Thompson, denied Marineland’s request to relocate the belugas to an aquarium in China. The Minister told the CBC: “As Canadians, we know that holding these marine mammals for entertainment purposes is not in their best interest. We have to do better.”

But what exactly is “better”? Leaving thirty animals stranded with no plan for care is not moral progress — it’s negligence dressed up as virtue.

When Marineland asked for help feeding and housing the whales, the Minister scolded them for “an inappropriate” funding request, claiming the province should pay instead. Ontario Premier Doug Ford, for his part, called himself an “animal lover”........

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