Bill to repeal nasty Ontario pit bull ban proposed
A particularly wrong-headed ban on pit bulls in Ontario, Canada may be well on its way to being repealed. From KC Dog Blog:
On Wednesday, Ontario MPP Cheri DiNovo officially proposed a bill that would repeal the provincial ban on 'pit bulls' while dog owners assembled in Queen's Park.... DiNovo noted that the government's ban has had no real impact on public safety and has led to the deaths of thousands of dogs since the ban was put in place.
"It's a badly drafted piece of legislation," said DiNovo. "All breed specific bans do is harm the owners and the dogs. It's kind of a gudge law. Yes, we should have violent dog legislation, but we should go after the dog, not breed specific stuff."
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(W)hen the bill passed in 2005, there were 44 experts who testified in the initial hearings -- 43 of them opposed the breed specific law. When the ban got sent to court under a plea of it being unconstitutional, Tom Skeldon -- a man that two years later was forced out of his own township for being inadequate at his job -- was the only dog warden in all of North America that Bryant could get to testify about why the bill was needed.
So now, four years later, the biggest proponent of the bill, and his lone "expert" witness, have both been removed from positions of authority -- so the landscape for people opposing the bill has definitely changed.
Best of luck to the pibbles of Ontario, and RIP those who lost their lives to this stupid, cruel law.
