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 darxon rated 6 months ago - Looks like Canada is using the RCMP to enforce the will of the Newfie sealing industry. The problem is that there's no evidence that the violation of Canadian national law (distance to the sealing ship) wasn't violated while the Sea Shepherd ship was still in international waters.
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- darxon rated 6 months ago
- Looks like Canada is using the RCMP to enforce the will of the Newfie sealing industry. The problem is that there's no evidence that the violation of Canadian national law (distance to the sealing ship) wasn't violated while the Sea Shepherd ship was still in international waters.
From the page: "David Nickarz, the Mowat's engineer, said Canada had no right to board the ship and arrest the 17 crew members because the Dutch-registered vessel was in international waters, where Canadian rules don't apply.
"But I guess the people with the guns had a different opinion," he said in an interview with The Canadian Press. "We've been marooned here in Sydney by the Canadian government."
"We were placed under arrest, forced to lie down on the deck," he said Sunday. "We were then escorted to the stern of the ship and kept under armed guard ... Canada did not have a right to board us and bring us to Sydney.""
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