"[Canada Has] no Intention of Joining the International Whaling Commission"

- William Doubleday, director-general of Fisheries and Oceans Science for the federal government, Canada -

In response to the US request to the Canadian government to join the IWC, William Doubleday, director-general of Fisheries and Oceans Science for the federal government, responded on behalf of the Canadian government: "We have no intention of joining the International Whaling Commission". "Canadian aboriginal people are strongly opposed to joining the International Whaling Commission, and don't consider that their interests would be properly taken into account by that commission", said Doubleday.

Source: Trancsript of radio interviews with William Doubleday, director-general of Fisheries and Oceans Science for the federal government, Canada, and James Baker, US Commissioner to the IWC, announcer Candace Holmstrem, CBC Mackenzie (Yellowknife, NT), September 13, 1996