Indeed the dire predictions have come true.
The government has given
the SPCA a kind of carte blanche with the PCA Act, making
the SPCA independent and untouchable.
While the government could call the SPCA to account, it
seems to have no interest in doing so, presumably because nobody's
re-election would be jeopardized by ignoring the rumblings from animal
lovers. Until somebody in the government or the SPCA sees their own neck
on the chopping block, they're not going to lift a finger to get the
animals' necks off the chopping block.

Whether government grants police powers to "a fine organization,
with an excellent reputation" (has this person just come out of a long coma!)
or whether it grants police powers to a number of organizations to allow for
competition, the door for abuses is open where the 'objects'
involved are voiceless and helpless.

Government still doesn't seem to be addressing the question of who will police 'The Police'.
In my view there has to be an absolutely impartial and objective body with ultimate authority.

Unless there is someone that the public and the organization can go to with disputes,
someone who can ferret out the truth and give remedy, then ultimately the animals will
be victimized by whoever makes $$$ their highest priority and can put up the slickest
and most glib smokescreen to cover that. The key is impartiality.

There must be no profit from either protecting the animals or protecting alleged abusers
or there will be corruption.

Brigitta MacMillan,
Maple Ridge