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"en.20150907.20.1-072-000"2
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"Madam President, whilst I appreciate that changes to the legislation on seal products are based on World Trade Organisation recommendations and serve the intention of better welfare and the protection of seals, I am deeply concerned about the impact that this will have on the Inuit communities whom these changes will also largely affect. Notably, my concerns lie with the lack of impact assessments carried out prior to tomorrow’s vote.
In 2009, when the exemption for Inuit communities was first established, a key priority of Parliament was to ensure that negative impacts would not occur for the Inuit communities, who for hundreds of years have relied on seal hunting as a means of providing food, warmth and economic prosperity. However, like many things that come from this Parliament, this was not the end result. Recent figures from Greenland have shown that the ban has had an overwhelmingly negative effect on those communities.
To ensure that continued or additional negative impacts from future changes do not take place, we must ensure that the livelihoods of the Inuit are held in the same high regard as the welfare of the seals. With this in mind, it is therefore imperative that the welfare of the group is not sacrificed one for the other."@en1
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