Canadian Cruelty

The Canadian government's harsh treatment of an illegal immigrant from the United States is a matter of more than a little concern. The arrogant Canadian government has subjected the immigrant to confinement ever since he was captured trying to get off a truck in Mississauga, Ontario. The conditions they are keeping him in are positively inhuman*. They won't consider releasing the captive and giving him a green card, either. And now they won't even pay for the deportation, they are asking for someone to volunteer to drive the captive back to California! This just stinks.

Of course, so does the immigrant.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian wildlife officials are looking for a brave driver prepared for a 3,500-kilometre (2,200 mile) trip to take a stinky stowaway skunk back to her home in California.

But the skunk, who survived a seven-day journey across the United States and into Canada without food and water, after being accidentally locked away in a transport lorry, is having a hard time finding someone to give her a ride home.

"We can never give a no-spray guarantee, of course," said Nathalie Karvonen, executive director at the Toronto Wildlife Centre, which has been caring for the skunk since January 5, referring to the black-and-white striped animal's foul-smelling defence mechanism.

"It would have be somebody who would be prepared for that possibility."

Releasing her into the wild in Canada is out of the question, Karvonen said.

"It's totally and utterly illegal from a provincial and federal standpoint to release a California skunk in Ontario."

As well, "skunks are very territorial animals … "They won't just readily accept a stranger in their territory, so there will be a big skunk fight."

Lady, you haven't seen a big skunk fight, yet. Just wait until the AUCLU gets into this and hauls you into court. (That's Animal Uprising™ Civil Liberties Union, not those lightweight humans). Let's put it this way, when they badger a witness in court, they use real badgers. Enough said.

* Well of course the conditions are inhuman. It's a skunk, for heaven's sake.

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