BC Animal Cruelty Investigations Enforcement Reform campaign by the BC SPGA advocating for provincially managed animal enforcement with the liaison and cooperation of the Province's 161 municipalities policing.

Unleash your inner animal activist! 🐾✊ Join the Campaign to stop over-policing of people with pets and the overwhelming costs to the taxpayer! 💰🐶

Did you know that in 2023, British Columbia recorded nearly 394,000 Criminal Code offenses? Out of those, only 21 were violations related to animal cruelty. That’s just 0.005% of all offenses and over half of the population have pets and animals! It raises an important question: Why is the Province paying hundreds of millions for over-policing people with pets?

British Columbians are known for their compassion towards animals which makes the current animal protection enforcement system inefficient and extremely costly. The BC SPCA rightly complains that they shouldn't have to spend their public donations and government grants on animal enforcement. The private charity wants to devote its endeavours to charitable activities.

With so many offenses recorded and so few related to animal cruelty offenses, does it really take all of the municipalities, the BC SPCA, the RCMP, the BC Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General, the Ministry Of Agriculture, the appeals Farm Tribunal and the Courts at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars to police people in our Province with pets?

BC SPGA proposes a streamlined, efficient approach to animal enforcement to be provincially managed with policing that is already in place in over 160 municipalities which not only benefits animals but also saves the taxpayer the extreme costs in the many hundreds of millions of overlapping and duplication.

The duplication and overlapping of animal enforcement is not even financially feasible at a time where the Province is predicted to have a deficit of over 10 billion dollars. People with pets in British Columbia are, simply put, being over-policed at an enormous public expense.

Email Campaign letter to BC's Premier Eby, Solicitor General and Finance Minister

Dear BC Premier Eby, Solicitor General Nina Krieger and Finance Minister Brenda Bailey,

In 2023,  British Columbia recorded a total of 393,928 Criminal Code offenses. Of these, only 21 offenses were related to animal cruelty. That’s just 0.005% of all offenses and over half of the population have pets and animals! It raises an important question: Why is the Province paying hundreds of millions for over-policing people with pets?

British Columbians are widely known as compassionate animal lovers underscoring that the community largely takes good care of their pets. Given this, a more streamlined, efficient approach to animal protection enforcement could benefit both taxpayers and residents.

The cost to the public for animal enforcement should be minimal with maximum efficiency. It is time to re-think animal enforcement in British Columbia. The British Columbia public pay the animal enforcement costs of over 160 municipalities policing, the BC SPCA, the RCMP, Surrey Police Service (SMS), the BC Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General and the Ministry Of Agriculture. Surveys show that BCers support the consolidation of animal enforcement services under a provincially managed framework working  closely with the over 160 municipalities policing across BC. The change provides coordinated oversight and specialized support without the additional expensive costs of hundreds of millions into  duplicating and overlapping efforts among too many costly various agencies.

The duplication and overlapping of animal enforcement is not even financially feasible at a time where the Province is predicted to have a deficit of over 10 billion dollars.

People with pets in British Columbia are, simply put, being over-policed at an enormous public expense at a time that we should be lowering costs and helping people with pets instead with an annual Pet Bonus and a Pet Tax Credit, for example and using the hundreds of millions of dollars of savings paid for over-policing people with pets for other necessary and needy purposes and programs.

Thank you in advance for your immediate attention to this very important provincial government animal policing campaign that people with pets like me heartily endorse.

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Unleash your inner animal activist! 🐾✊ Join the Campaign to stop over-policing of people with pets and the overwhelming costs to the taxpayer! 💰🐶

Email Campaign letter to BC's Premier Eby, Solicitor General and Finance Minister

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