JANUARY - SEPTEMBER 2007

Animal rights groups are again ratcheting up their attack on Canadian sealing, claiming it is cruel, unsustainable and unnecessary. How do you find their propaganda?:

Total votes cast: 446

• Accurate and informative. 18%
• Emotional but on target. 0%
• Sometimes they exaggerate. 0%
• They frequently distort the truth. 9%
• Just distortions and lies. 70%

APRIL - JUNE 2006

Sir Paul McCartney has joined the campaign against Canadian sealing. Whatever your position on sealing, have you found his contribution:

Total votes cast: 70

• Well-informed and effective. 48%
• Poorly informed but effective nonetheless. 2%
• Uninformed and ineffective. 14%
• Uninformed but damaging. 11%
• Exremely ignorant and destructive. 22%

APRIL 2004 - SEPTEMBER 2004

Keiko, star of "Free Willy", died recently following an effort by animal rights groups costing millions of dollars to rehabilitate him in the wild. Was this effort:

Total votes cast: 36

• A noble endeavour, worth the time and cost? 19%
• A misguided act of foolishness? 33%
• A self-serving bid to raise funds? 47%

JUNE 2002 - SEPTEMBER 2002

At its May annual meeting, the International Whaling Commission voted not to renew the "aboriginal subsistence" quota of endangered bowheads for Alaska because of America's refusal to endorse minke quotas for Japanese coastal whalers. Should America ...

Total votes cast: 20

• maintain its position. 5%
• abandon Alaska and oppose all whaling. 10%
• offer support for Japanese coastal whaling. 60%
• leave IWC and set US quotas unilaterally. 20%
• leave IWC and stop all US whaling. 5%

OCTOBER 2001 - FEBRUARY 2002

Qu.: Why do you believe the US government maintains a ban on Canadian seal products?

Total votes cast: 45

• It believes seals are endangered. 11%
• It believes lifting the ban would endanger seals. 13%
• It believes in seal rights. 4%
• It does not want to anger anti-sealing NGOs. 42%
• The US has no sealing constituency. 28%

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