Parliament shows support for seal hunting

Canada's parliamentary restaurant will be serving seal meat today in a gesture of defiance of the European Union ban on the import of seal products. Canada's government says it will fight the EU ban, which came into force last July on the grounds that the annual seal hunt off the east coast was cruel and inhumane. The east coast seal hunt kills an average of 275,000 harp seals during mid-November to mid-May.

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