The federal and Ontario governments are urging each other to help 30 belugas at Marineland, which has threatened to euthanize the whales if the park does not receive emergency funds from Ottawa.
The federal government should reconsider its position after denying the defunct Niagara Falls amusement park permits it had requested to move the belugas to an aquarium in China, Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday.
Last week, federal Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson said she turned down issuing the permits to move the whales to Chimelong Ocean Kingdom because she did not want to subject them to a future performing in captivity, which is consistent with a law passed in 2019.
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