Oh and another thing--if you think Ottawa is "protecting the livelihoods and way of life" of PEI or Newfoundland, think again.

Each boat with a 12 man crew brings in about $100,000 a day during the hunt. The unprecedented increase in the quota, to nearly a million seals/year, was done not for the sake of the locals, but to reintroduce the big money hunt by commercial interests, whom the Ottawa politicians can benefit from mightily through legalized political graft like "campaign contributions" and token taxing of the hunt. Then you'll hear the politicians say the hunt brings in desperately needed tax revenues for welfare mothers...