Down with bottom feeders III

This typist was very disappointed to learn that Canada's minority Conservative government has refused to support a moratorium on deep seas bottom trawling.

Just days after President George Bush threw his muscle behind this cause, Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn announced that Canada would not stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the US, Australia, the UK, New Zealand, Norway, Brazil and The Gifted Typist who have all called for the moratorium.

Bottom trawling, a fisheries practice which has been compared to forestry clear cutting, is endangering fish and coral habitats of the world's oceans, according to scientists who study the oceans.

This typist can't help but notice how this case brings together the two similar words of "conservation" and "Conservative" and the irony of how polar opposite the two definitions are in matters which concern the environment.

Coral Clad and her friends in the High Seas Trawling Moratorium group are gutted by this decision but still hopeful that the United Nations will vote in favour of the moratorium in December.

Perhaps Fisheries Minister Hearn would like to hear what people think. After all, he is still a member in a minority government which could fall at any time.