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7/30/11:
Quebec Musher Alert -
Legislation limiting the time a dog can be tethered Since our last posting there has been some new developments. First: due to a large volume of emails on this subject, the Minister's office has cut off all emails. They are accepting only written responses to the proposed law regarding tethering of dogs.
Second: After a meeting with the Quebec Mushers Association and due to the volume of responses, Government has extended the decision date for revision to the proposed law to August 26th, 2011. It is important that the we keep writing the Minister involved to ask for a revision to this "article 27" regarding the tethering issue and request an exclusion for "Sled Dogs". Thank you for your efforts and to all those who have responded. Please don't let up on your support letters for the revision, as the task is not yet compete! Stan Morgan 6/29/11: Quebec Musher Alert -
Legislation limiting the time a dog can be tethered This "Alert" is regarding article 27 of the new law regarding treatment of Dogs & Cats here in Quebec. It basically states that "dogs cannot be tethered on a chain for more that 12 hours per day". We have until the 5th of August 2011 to get an amendment. French | English (computer translation) À vous tous, Mushers du Québec Il est venu le temps de se
mobiliser TOUS ENSEMBLE, qu'on soit
récréatif, familial, ou touristique, afin de vous faire entendre face au
projet de règlement sur la sécurité et le bien-être des chats et des chiens
qui va devenir la nouvelle norme d'inspection de nos chenils.
Merci d’informer l’AMQ (jocelynjacob@videotron.ca) des démarches que vous entreprenez à ce sujet, afin de comptabiliser les mails ou documents envoyés. This English version is a computer translation. To all Quebec Mushers it came time to raise ALL TOGETHER , which is recreational, family, or tourist, to be heard against the proposed regulations on the safety and well-being of cats and dogs that will become the new standard inspection of our kennels.The draft regulation has been published (Official Gazette), you can read here and HERE Please read this project, paying particular attention to the Article 27. This article will have significant negative impact on our sport, "No animal shall be attached to the outside more than twelve hours a day.." Imagine if you have 20, 30, 100 dogs, does that mean, like infrastructure, security, (your dogs or clients) and other issues of dominance, behavior management .... The comments are allowed for a period of only 45 days after publication (ie, before August 5, 2011). According to the QMA, who defended our position in the last year in the debates, it is essential that each of the mushers meeting personally his deputy, the mayor, to explain the arguments presented in the attached document. THIS IS THE explanatory material prepared by the QMA IT'S TIME TO ACT, you are under 38 days to get involved if you want to keep your kennel Current and not delegate your power to another, it is up to YOU to operate, all of us together to make this effort to contact as many people to win the change before the deadline! Talk to your friends and mushers to anyone who can help! Make an appointment with your MP and send the document to Ms. Fortin ( Madeleine.Fortin @ mapaq.gouv.qc.ca ) by logging accurately. Madeleine Fortin, Assistant Deputy Minister Be polite, this is not to attack or say that their new regulations might instead Be respectful and press that you want to contribute to the improvement in the specificity of our pointing dogs Nordic and mention the support received from the elected met. There must be a large number of mushers who rally if you want to be heard . This blow it, it was in that group must defend our sport, our passion, our way of life, no one can do it for us, and once the law passed, we will live with the new standards that may mean the end for several kennels .. it's not like we were many, it's not like we had a youth that is going to take over, let's go together, each munching support in its sector and sending it to the deputy minister who will compile our surprise and legitimate request for change of this article. top of page | home | feedback | search |
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