Post by Woody Williams on Nov 21, 2005 18:40:32 GMT -5
www.cbc.ca/story/news/national/2005/11/20/film-sealing051120.html
SEALING DOCUMENTARY PROVOKES TOUGH WORDS FROM HUNT'S CRITIC
WebPosted Sun Nov 20
CBC News
---A longtime seal-hunt opponent has described Newfoundlanders as
"sadistic" and "embarrassing" to the rest of Canada.
Paul Watson, who heads the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, defended
his comments, posted online in response to a National Film Board
documentary celebrating sealers.
"I think it's an accurate generalization of Newfoundland. The fact is
is that Newfoundland has a history of extermination of species and
mismanagement and destruction of its fisheries. That is a fact,"
Watson said.
Newfoundland filmmaker Anne Troake has become the target of angry
messages and vandalism after her film My Ancestors Were Rogues and
Murderers was shown recently in St. John's.
It's about sealing and her family's history of participation in
the industry.
Troake used a recorded phone message in her film to show the kind of
reaction her family gets when they defend the sealing industry.
"You people out there you don't even know whose money you are living off
of. You're living off of central Canada and Western Canada."
But that call was mild compared with what happened after the documentary
was shown.
"Last Saturday night, after I went to bed, a car drove up and somebody
threw a brick through my window and drove away. It wasn't an attempted
break-in," Troake said.
The window was broken after angry letters about her film were posted on
the internet.
Watson says he doesn't condone what's happen to Troake.
Troake said she'll keep showing her film in Newfoundland and Labrador and
she's looking to distribute it in other parts of Canada and the U.S.
A member of the filmmaker's family, fisherman and sealing advocate Gary
Troake, died at sea in 2000.
SEALING DOCUMENTARY PROVOKES TOUGH WORDS FROM HUNT'S CRITIC
WebPosted Sun Nov 20
CBC News
---A longtime seal-hunt opponent has described Newfoundlanders as
"sadistic" and "embarrassing" to the rest of Canada.
Paul Watson, who heads the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, defended
his comments, posted online in response to a National Film Board
documentary celebrating sealers.
"I think it's an accurate generalization of Newfoundland. The fact is
is that Newfoundland has a history of extermination of species and
mismanagement and destruction of its fisheries. That is a fact,"
Watson said.
Newfoundland filmmaker Anne Troake has become the target of angry
messages and vandalism after her film My Ancestors Were Rogues and
Murderers was shown recently in St. John's.
It's about sealing and her family's history of participation in
the industry.
Troake used a recorded phone message in her film to show the kind of
reaction her family gets when they defend the sealing industry.
"You people out there you don't even know whose money you are living off
of. You're living off of central Canada and Western Canada."
But that call was mild compared with what happened after the documentary
was shown.
"Last Saturday night, after I went to bed, a car drove up and somebody
threw a brick through my window and drove away. It wasn't an attempted
break-in," Troake said.
The window was broken after angry letters about her film were posted on
the internet.
Watson says he doesn't condone what's happen to Troake.
Troake said she'll keep showing her film in Newfoundland and Labrador and
she's looking to distribute it in other parts of Canada and the U.S.
A member of the filmmaker's family, fisherman and sealing advocate Gary
Troake, died at sea in 2000.