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Tories won't meet with Bardot over seal hunt
Last Updated Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:13:33 EST
CBC News
French actress Brigitte Bardot won't be getting a warm welcome from
politicians when she travels to Canada this week to protest the seal
hunt.
Brigitte Bardot, visiting an animal kennel in the Paris suburb of
Levallois, December, 2004. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)
Both Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Fisheries Minister
Loyola Hearn have refused to meet with Bardot on her visit to Ottawa
Wednesday.
"I think giving people like that attention and publicity just furthers
their cause," Hearn told CBC News.
Bardot, 71, was one of the first international celebrities to take aim
at the seal hunt.
In 1977, she travelled with the activist group Greenpeace to the ice
floes off Canada's East Coast, where she was photographed holding a baby
harp seal, known as a whitecoat.
The star of And God Created Woman hasn't been back to Canada since.
She now runs the Brigitte Bardot Foundation, an animal-rights group that
is calling for an international boycott of Canadian products until the
annual hunt comes to a halt.
Killing whitecoats has been banned since 1987, but hunters still harvest
older seals each March and April.
British singer Paul McCartney and his wife, Heather Mills McCartney,
made a high-profile visit to Prince Edward Island in early March to
complain about the continuing East Coast seal hunt.
They visited the ice floes off Quebec's Magdalene Islands, where they
were photographed with seals, and later debated Newfoundland Premier
Danny Williams on CNN's Larry King Live.
The McCartneys' trip was arranged by the Humane Society of the United
States.
Williams has accused such animal rights groups of using the seal hunt to
raise millions of dollars in donations by using outdated video and
photographic images of the hunt and quoting misleading statistics about
the current state of Canada's seal population.
The Brigitte Bardot Foundation's website says the group has more than
57,000 donors in more than 60 nations around the world.
Tories won't meet with Bardot over seal hunt
Last Updated Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:13:33 EST
CBC News
French actress Brigitte Bardot won't be getting a warm welcome from
politicians when she travels to Canada this week to protest the seal
hunt.
Brigitte Bardot, visiting an animal kennel in the Paris suburb of
Levallois, December, 2004. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)
Both Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Fisheries Minister
Loyola Hearn have refused to meet with Bardot on her visit to Ottawa
Wednesday.
"I think giving people like that attention and publicity just furthers
their cause," Hearn told CBC News.
Bardot, 71, was one of the first international celebrities to take aim
at the seal hunt.
In 1977, she travelled with the activist group Greenpeace to the ice
floes off Canada's East Coast, where she was photographed holding a baby
harp seal, known as a whitecoat.
The star of And God Created Woman hasn't been back to Canada since.
She now runs the Brigitte Bardot Foundation, an animal-rights group that
is calling for an international boycott of Canadian products until the
annual hunt comes to a halt.
Killing whitecoats has been banned since 1987, but hunters still harvest
older seals each March and April.
British singer Paul McCartney and his wife, Heather Mills McCartney,
made a high-profile visit to Prince Edward Island in early March to
complain about the continuing East Coast seal hunt.
They visited the ice floes off Quebec's Magdalene Islands, where they
were photographed with seals, and later debated Newfoundland Premier
Danny Williams on CNN's Larry King Live.
The McCartneys' trip was arranged by the Humane Society of the United
States.
Williams has accused such animal rights groups of using the seal hunt to
raise millions of dollars in donations by using outdated video and
photographic images of the hunt and quoting misleading statistics about
the current state of Canada's seal population.
The Brigitte Bardot Foundation's website says the group has more than
57,000 donors in more than 60 nations around the world.
