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Nunavut talks ban on EU alcohol
Fred Schell is planning to make a motion in the Nunavut legislature next week to ban the sale of booze from Europe in the territory's liquor stores.
It's a symbolic way of protesting the European Union's ban on seal products, Schell says. Canada boycotted South African wine in response to apartheid so the territory should do the same to the EU now, he argues.
It wouldn't mean much for the EU from an economic standpoint, he concedes. Nunavut only has a handful of liquor stores for about 30,000 people.
"But I think the message would be loud and clear that we're not happy at all about their decision to ban seal products in the European Union," Schell says. "We don't agree at all with what they're trying to do with this seal ban so maybe we shouldn't be supporting (the EU) on the liquor because the government here does bring in the liquor for resale in Nunavut."
The European Parliament approved a ban on seal products last year in response to animal welfare concerns. Although it has said traditional aboriginal hunts are exempt, Inuit groups say they will be affected by the ban. A coalition of Inuit organizations is challenging the ban in European court, saying the move was made without conservation or animal welfare justification.
"That's the livelihood for a lot of these people," Schell says. "They eat the food here so what are they supposed to do? They eat the seal and then throw the skins away? They're hunted here humanely."
-- The Canadian Press
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition March 6, 2010 A12
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