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Originally Posted by gemy  What many of my USA friends don't know is that Montreal in the Province of Quebec, has had a difficult relationship with Canada for many years. They have wanted separation and sent 3 Referendum votes over the past 30 yrs to try to show majority support for separation from Canada. Their main language is French - actually Quebecois French, so English speakers only having English, can have a difficult time, especially dealing with the powers to be.
The legal system in this animal cruelty arena seems byzantine and certainly not transparent to the average lay person.
So apparently we might not be able to foster any BRT if we don't live in Quebec... You know the song "I heard it through the grapevine".... well that is what I have heard from two different rescue contacts in Ontario. Not as of yet mentioned by the SPCA, that non Quebec residents could not possibly qualify as a foster home.
We do have someone who is at least familiar with BRT's and really knows working dogs, who does speak fluent Quebecois French and she is our communicating contact with the SPCA.
Our secretary is basically placing 30 calls a day to that organization to try to get some answers on things.
They still have the pregnant lass in shelter at SPCA now. And our breeder who has agreed to whelp, is you guessed it-- lives in ONTARIO and not Quebec.
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Wow, that really does complicate things. And I'm assuming that Quebec is under Napoleonic law and the rest of Canada's legal system is based on English Common Law, so you're dealing with a totally different perspective in the courts. We have a similar situation where the legal system in the state of Louisiana is Napoleonic based and the other 49 states are English Common based. Two totally different mindsets.
I hope you can find some qualified people to foster them in Quebec.