Why? The import ban is new, and our trade negotiations are current... Why would they have done it by now when there were no pressures to do anything?
European Parliament urges Canada to end seal-ban fight
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Why? The import ban is new, and our trade negotiations are current... Why would they have done it by now when there were no pressures to do anything?
I think it is better taken care of at the consumer level. Leave the government negotiating out of it. If the EU wants to ban our products then we don't buy any products coming from Europe. It is not a trade war if we just don't buy what they want to flog. That is one of the benefits of a free market. We could also encourage exporters of all kinds to avoid European markets if they can export to Asia or the US instead.
Put me with the crowd that wants to tell the EU to butt out of our business. As has been pointed out, the EU has historically and continues to mismanage wildlife resources (the blue-fin tuna is one of the latest being over fished by the Euros, even beyond what the fishing nations admit is dangerous to sustaining a viable population, to satisfy Japanese markets). As an Albertan, I can emphatize with concerns over environmental issues surrounding the oil sands, but I also think many of those issues are misunderstood and over-stated in the general public... and I feel the issues around the seal hunts are likely in the same boat, especially as espoused by such great objective thinkers as the PETA-set.
This isn't about ecology or any science.The European seal product ban is about Bambi.
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