Saving the whales is no joke; Ottawa needs to do more | Daniel Dylan

By Daniel Dylan ( March 14, 2023, 11:59 AM EDT) -- In June 2019, the historic Ending the Captivity of Whales and Dolphins Act, which amended the Fisheries Act, the Criminal Code, and the Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation of International and Interprovincial Trade Act, legislated a prohibition on the further bringing of whales into human captivity. However, whales already in captivity, for example in marine parks such as the notorious Marineland, were permitted to remain there until their deaths — the last of which, Kiska, woefully died last week after a miserable existence spent in confinement....