Berger Blanc Cruaute

Our Actions

SPA Canada is coordinating and organizing a national capaign against Berger Blanc, concentrated more specifically in Quebec, and against privately owned pounds that are for-profit.

We are planning many protests against Berger Blanc and for profit pounds. Public awareness agents of SPA Canada will be present in many major Canadian cities,everyday, in order to expose Berger Blanc’s cruelty and the many scandals of for-profit pounds. Our organization will also be collecting petitions agains privately owned for-profit pounds.

Our Past Actions

April 19, 2012 – Press release

Press conference – Gerald Iron Hands

An artist highlights the inaction of the Tremblay’s administration in the Berger Blanc case.
March 27, 2012 – Press release

Upcoming National Demonstration Against Berger Blanc

January 31, 2012 – Press release

SPA Canada forces pet products retailer Mondou to break its ties with Berger Blanc.

January 13, 2012 – Press release

SPA Canada demands public apology from the Mayor of Epiphanie

December 14, 2011 – Press release

Major disappointment for SPA Canada and for Quebec pets

December 4, 2011 – Press release (French only)

SPA Canada reacts to Mr. Corbeil’s comments on the “Larocque/Lapierre” show on TVA

November 25, 2011 – Press release

Owners of Outaouais puppy mill Paws R Us plead guilty to accusations of animal cruelty

October 28, 2011 – Press release

Demo in front of Jean Charest’ office on October 30, 2011

September 18, 2011 – Press release

March to Jean Charest’ office on September 24, 2011

September 18, 2011 – Press release

SPA Canada’s reaction to Puppymill shut down in Outaouais

August 26, 2011 – Press release (French only)

MAPAQ Recommendations from SPA Canada on MAPAQ’s draft Regulation

June 18th, 2011 – press release (French only)

Protest in 5 cities

June 14th, 2011 – Press release (French only)

The SPCM Ste-Adèle: The Director Accused Of Cruelty Towards Animals

May 28th, 2011 – Press Release (French Only)

Protest in 9 cities

May 13th, 2011 (French Only)

Protest in Montreal and Quebec

April 23rd, 2011

Protest in Montreal

April 22nd, 2011 – Press Conference (french only)

animal cruelty financed by Our municipal taxes

Operation Cyber-Storm

Here is an excellent and easy way to take direct action on behalf of the animal martyrs of Berger Blanc; it will only take a few minutes of your time.
We will be sending emails, in massive numbers, to a municipal administration complicit in animal cruelty in order to demand the return of the sculpture, Gerald Ironhands, a piece art that shows the apathy of the Tremblay administration with regards to the management of public pounds.
Please share massively in order to make this cyber-tempest a veritable tornado!
WHEN: Wednesday, June 27th 2012, from 9am to 4pm.

objectives of the operation:

  • Demand that the city put the symbolic sculpture, Gerald Ironhands, back in its place in the entrance of City Hall.
  • Demand the establishment of a public pound in Montreal.
  • Increase the pressure to counter the apathy and inaction of the city of Montreal with regards to the Berger Blanc file.

influential persons to joint by email in the city of montreal, in order of importance:

Gérald Tremblay – Mayor
geraldtremblay@ville.montreal.qc.ca
maire@ville.montreal.qc.ca

Darren Becker – Press officer, mayor’s Cabinet and executive committee
dbecker@ville.montreal.qc.ca

Martine Painchaud – Press officer, mayor’s Cabinet and executive committee
martine.painchaud@ville.montreal.qc.ca

Ariane Lareau – Press officer and communications advisor
ariane.lareau@ville.montreal.qc.ca

On Thursday, April 19th, under the impotent surveillance of the building’s security, SPA Canada infiltrated Montreal’s City Hall with a piece by sculpture artist Tony Fortin as a form of protest against the mayor’s apathy with regards to the public pound file.

This work, of a minimal value of $5000, was given to the Tremblay administration to mark the first anniversary of the broadcast of the horrific scenes documented during SPA Canada’s investigation of Berger Blanc.

Despite the conditions imposed at the time of the donation, Gerald Tremblay decided to remove this symbol of the deficient practices he implicitly condones.

Which is why SPA Canada and the citizens of Montreal demand that their municipal leaders recognize their own inaction by re-exposing the work of art, a tribute to the memory of the 25 000 animals killed at Berger Blanc each year.

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