441-02517 (Animals)

Whereas:

• As part of federal defence department training exercises, over eighteen hundred piglets have been killed after being stabbed, mutilated and exposed to radiation and chemical nerve agents;

• Inadequately sedated piglets revived during the five-hour training exercise, with one piglet "vocalizing loudly" and another "attempting to jump off the (surgical) table";

• Since 2005, the people responsible for ensuring that these piglets did not suffer, knew that the piglets were reviving but hid the information from the government and Canadians by altering documents and concealing what actually happened;

• According to an Abacus poll conducted in January, 2023, only 1 in 10 Canadians support the use of piglets for military trauma training; and

• 77% of NATO nations no longer use animals for military medical training.

We, the undersigned, Citizens and Residents of Canada, call upon the Minister of National Defence to end the use of animals in military medical training.