Canada must explain polar bear policies to NAFTA group

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Source: Canadian Press

Canada is being forced to explain its polar bear policies to an international environmental watchdog.

The Commission on Environmental Co-operation, which is part of the North American Free Trade Agreement, has accepted a petition from a U.S.-based group that says Canada isn't following its own laws on protecting the bears.

In accepting the petition, the commission has found that the Center for Biological Diversity has registered a legitimate concern under the terms of the treaty.

"The commission found that we had a sufficient allegation and provided sufficient documentation of the violation that we can move forward in this process," Sarah Uhlemann, a lawyer with the center, said Friday.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/12/01/north-polar-bears-nafta.html

[dipsydoodle]

1. Good.

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[Auntie Bush]

2. The bear IS threatened...so why officially not make it so...and stop the hunting.

All those who have a bear rug or bear part are disgraceful and they make me sick!

[freshwest]

3. Agreed. And are they shooting from helicopters? That would be like DeLay's canned hunts in Texas.

[Dont call me Shirley]

4. Or dick cheney's partridge hunt in TX

[ReasonsVoice]

5. What about Sarah Palin?

She isn't as stupid as she is made out to be, but I can never resist a snipe...this feels like reddit now.

[PSPS]

7. "She isn't as stupid as she is made out to be"

True. She's even more stupid. Perhaps vacuous is a better description. Enjoy your pizza.

[trouble.smith]

8. what about those poor chinese bile bears? talk about barbaric.

makes me fucking sick to even think about it.

[freshwest]

9. That's part of the poaching business in the USA, too.