Oh Canada ... just kill 'em before you skin 'em, please

This one makes me proud to be Canadian – new rules for the seal hunt! No, the seal hunt won’t be curbed. No, we’re not going to slow it down – there is $13MM and 6,000 rural jobs on the line, after all – which works out to be around $2,100 per rural job – a lot of money, eh? No, nothing radical – the new rules: make sure the seals are dead before you skin them. Yup, club ‘em once, club ‘em twice – hell, club ‘em a third time just to be sure. And why the third club on the head? The Europeans threatened to ban our seal pelts. As good a reason to make sure a seal is dead as any I suppose.