Woman offers $22m to end seal hunt - Middle East - Breaking News 24/7 - NEWS.com.au: "A CONNECTICUT offered Canada $US16 million ($22.25 million) to immediately end a controversial seal hunt, she wrote in an open letter to the prime minister today, but Canada is not biting.
'Your government has repeatedly stated that the $16 million realised from the slaughter of Canadian baby seals is vital to the fishing communities of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and Newfoundland,' Cathy Kangas said in her letter.
'If you stop this year's hunt immediately, we will provide you with this $16 million to be distributed at your discretion.'
But Steven Outhouse, a spokesman for Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn, said: 'The short answer is 'No'. We're not interested in the offer and would prefer she put the money in another worthwhile cause.'
Despite protests by countless animal rights groups and celebrities including Canadian-born actress Pamela Anderson, French film legend Brigitte Bardot and former Beatle Paul McCartney, Ottawa authorised the cull of 325,000 seals this year."
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