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"The Toronto Sun has learned the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal received an application on Monday related to city council's decision to ban shark fin in Toronto."

This is the only only time I will ever agree with Ezra Levant, but to hel! with the Human Rights Tribunal on this one.

So I guess it would also be a human rights violation to ban the sale of all those endangered species used in Chinese medicine.

Most fish stocks are in terminal decline. Ocean temperatures are rising to levels that will decimate planckton - the base of the ocean food chain. There are growing dead-zones in all major bodies of water. And yet each year hundreds of thousands of sharks are caught, have their fins cut off, and then are dumped over the side. If the oceans die, we die - it's that simple. We need to do for sharks and other endangered fish species what was done for whales: enact a global ban on their harvesting. However I'm not hopefull that the political will exists. The most probable scenario is that with the Earth creaking under the weight of 7 billion people, short term attitudes will prevail. Then the global fishery collapses, and is closly followed by the reduction of the human population.

The immense cruelty of this practice is astounding. Must be ended. Human Rights does not compute. Ridiculous complaint

sharks aren't human. This is a desperate lawyer ploy to win when they've already lost. No need to waste time at the human rights board. I'll refrain from reading further though, as the link is the Toronto Sun reporting after all.... now there's something that really should be on the Human Rights tribunal, ironically enough.

I'm glad of the ban, but it's really just a drop in the bucket of blood from animal cruelty.
Will the city step up and ban foie gras, for instance?

It is inhuman to eat shark fin. Tell that to the people who advocate cutting the fin off the shark and then throwing the shark back into the ocean where it dies a painful death. And - who has the right to destroy a species just because you like the taste of a vital part of it.