An editorial cartoonist for the Globe and Mail is
defending his controversial work that ran in the weekend
issue of the paper.
Tony Jenkins's cartoon in Saturday's Globe and Mail
mixes the recent discovery of an ice cap on the planet
Mars and the controversial Atlantic seal hunt. The
drawing depicts a landing on Mars of a joint
Newfoundland/Innu space shuttle conducting a feasibility
study on the clubbing to death of young life forms found
there.
Jenkins admitted that he did not know it is Canada's Inuit
people who take part in the seal hunt, not the Innu, but
said he stands by the rest of his cartoon.
"I respect people's way of life and the need to make a
living, that's all positive," Jenkins said on Monday. "But is
that worth balanced out — this stain on Canada, which is
what it is."
Jenkins said he believes the public relations campaign in
defence of the seal hunt is not working, if he, and the
general public, are not aware of what the true
circumstances and practices of the seal hunt are.
An editorial in Monday's edition of the Globe and Mail
accuses the European Commission of hypocrisy for trying
to ban seal imports while allowing trade in every other
type of animal fur.
defending his controversial work that ran in the weekend
issue of the paper.
Tony Jenkins's cartoon in Saturday's Globe and Mail
mixes the recent discovery of an ice cap on the planet
Mars and the controversial Atlantic seal hunt. The
drawing depicts a landing on Mars of a joint
Newfoundland/Innu space shuttle conducting a feasibility
study on the clubbing to death of young life forms found
there.
Jenkins admitted that he did not know it is Canada's Inuit
people who take part in the seal hunt, not the Innu, but
said he stands by the rest of his cartoon.
"I respect people's way of life and the need to make a
living, that's all positive," Jenkins said on Monday. "But is
that worth balanced out — this stain on Canada, which is
what it is."
Jenkins said he believes the public relations campaign in
defence of the seal hunt is not working, if he, and the
general public, are not aware of what the true
circumstances and practices of the seal hunt are.
An editorial in Monday's edition of the Globe and Mail
accuses the European Commission of hypocrisy for trying
to ban seal imports while allowing trade in every other
type of animal fur.
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