Join us tomorrow night MONDAY MAY 15th at the Vancouver Park Board at 7pm when the park commissioners will decide whether to amend a park bylaw and ban cetacean captivity at the Vancouver Aquarium, or not. The Aquarium apparently is planning to hold a rally outside the Park Board, so please come early and help hold up one of our banners to counteract the Aquarium propaganda. Below are excerpts from Dan Fumano's op-ed (link posted) showing how the Aquarium is trying to fool Vancouverites into believing that the proposed bylaw amendment will affect the rescue center, when it won't. The Aquarium's survey questions never refer to the issue at hand, but instead questions are always worded spinning the issue around in order to try to get public sympathy. ----------------------- EXCERPTS --------------- ...On Monday, the aquarium issued a release headlined: “Survey Shows Overwhelming Public Support for Vancouver Aquarium’s Marine Mammal Rescue Program.” Nightingale was quoted in the release saying: “The Park Board and its proposed ban are completely offside with the public.” The Angus Reid Forum panel question, though, wasn’t about whether the aquarium should keep whales in pools to sell tickets for human entertainment, but whether or not “it is better to provide ongoing care for a stranded dolphin, whale, or porpoise at the Vancouver Aquarium than it is to euthanize the animal.” ...The aquarium has called Monday’s park board meeting the “final vote on the cetacean ban.” But it seems likely the emotionally fraught issue won’t end with Monday’s vote. ----------------------------------------------------------