Today, as you read this, I and four other members of Humane Society International's ProtectSeals team will go on trial for documenting the commercial seal hunt.

Alarmed by the international outcry against the hunt, the Canadian government is desperate to cover up the cruelty that takes place on the ice every year when sealers slaughter hundreds of thousands of seal pups for their fur. And the government appears ready to sink to desperate tactics to stop us from exposing the truth.

Tell Canada what you think of its attempt to draw a curtain around the cruelty of the commercial seal hunt: Contact Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper today.

The incident in question happened on March 26, 2006. My team of observers and I filmed sealers as they killed helpless baby seals, documenting apparent violations of hunt regulations. Without warning, officers from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) stopped us and accused us of being slightly within the 10-meter distance from seal hunters required by our observation permits. We were not, and we have the evidence to prove it.

Some of our footage was seized, and we were denied observation permits for the rest of the 2006 hunt. Today, we must appear in a courtroom in a sealing community in the Magdalene Islands to defend ourselves.

These trumped-up charges are part of the government’s concerted campaign to block observation of the hunt. Just months ago, the DFO proposed to double the distance observers must remain from seal hunters, making documenting cruelty violations even more difficult. In marked contrast, seal hunters have threatened and assaulted observers on the ice floes -- even going so far as to throw rocks at our helicopter blades while we were in the air and threatening the safety of every person on that helicopter -- and received not even a reprimand.

But despite these assaults, we know that the key to ending the hunt is exposing its shocking cruelties to the world. Please help us protect that right today.

The government and the sealers know they must keep the public from witnessing the cruelty of the hunt. One by one, nations are closing their markets to Canadian seal products, while legions of individuals and companies are joining the boycott of Canadian seafood. The Canadian government and sealing industry know they must do something to take the pressure off.

But rather than address the extreme cruelty we document each and every year, they are trying to eliminate the documentation.

It’s a cruelty cover-up. But it can only work if we let the Canadian government get away with it. We need your help. My team and I are fighting for our right to be there for the seals and to expose the abuse that is unleashed on the unsuspecting baby seals each year, but we cannot do it alone. The truth is on our side.

Speak up for the seals—and the truth—today.

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