New ag-gag laws punish whistleblowers with Camille Labchuk and Peter Sankoff

In the face of opposition from legal scholars, animal rights advocates, and associations of journalists, Ontario has now passed unconstitutional ag-gag laws, an attempt to silence whistleblowers who expose animal cruelty. Nate speaks with Animal Justice lawyer Camille Labchuk and University of Alberta law professor Peter Sankoff about efforts in Ontario and across our country to hide animal cruelty on farms.

Check out Camille and Peter's own podcast Paw and Order and donate to the efforts of Animal Justice to strike down these unconstitutional laws at animaljustice.ca

This episode is dedicated to Regan Russell, a kind and passionate animal rights advocate who was fatally hit by a pig transport truck while protesting the new ag-gag laws outside of a slaughterhouse. We need more people like Regan in the world, those who dedicate so much of their lives to the pursuit of justice for others. She put herself in harm's way to help animals in distress, and it is hard to accept that she lost her life bearing witness to animal cruelty mere days after Ontario's legislature moved to make her activism criminal.

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