NPA-Dominated Park Board to Now Decide About Breeding Captive Whales

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Irrespective of month’s long heated debates, the controversial issue of breeding captive cetaceans at the Vancouver Aquarium has now been passed on to the new Non-Partisan Association-dominated park board. The situation has come to this regardless of an eleventh-hour attempt by outgoing Vision Vancouver commissioner, Sarah Blyth, to table a motion on Monday night that called for a vote to immediately pass a bylaw banning the long-debated practice.

The motion was tabled at the current board’s final meeting for the term. However, the commissioner is bound to either at least give a two weeks’ notice before presenting a motion or receive a two-thirds majority vote. At the time, fellow Vision commissioners Constance Barnes and Niki Sharma were the only ones, out of the total seven, to have voted to hear the motion. Appearing frustrated after the meeting, Ms. Blyth alleged that “this democracy is not being served.”

In addition to that, Ms. Blyth mentioned in an interview later that she was extremely disappointed with the result. She said that “it’s just so many years of this coming back to the board table.” Blyth alleged that “we had finally heard from scientists, from the SPCA, from people all over the world,” adding that “I think, in the end, we’re going to have additional whales [in captivity] because of this not passing tonight. I think the plan was to breed whales in the facility when they get additional pools so they can keep whales in captivity until the end of time.”

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