What we're doing

Global Action Network has campaigned for the past three years to stop the exploitation and abuse of animals in entertainment. In 2000, we successfully lobbied two Quebec municipalities (Ville St. Laurent and the Town of Mount Royal) to ban exotic animal acts in entertainment. A third Quebec municipality agreed to enact non-animal welfare legislation to stop circuses from performing there.

Every year, Global Action Network organizes peaceful protests against the Super Cirque de Montreal (held each Christmas at the Molson Center), and the Shrine Circuses held across Canada each summer.

Currently, GAN is campaigning to achieve bans of animal acts in entertainment in the City of Montreal and several surrounding municipalities. We are also working to have the Canadian Food Inspection Agency ban the import of all performing elephants with a history of Tuberculosis.

To find out how you can get involved in the campaign to stop the exploitation and abuse of animals in entertainment, please click here.

If you would like to make a donation to help fund our ongoing campaign to ban animal acts in entertainment click here.