Professor Sankoff's guide to Canadian animal protection law

Part I: Animal protection law in context

1. The history of animal protection law in Canada
2. The property paradigm
3. Constitutional concerns
4. Farmed animals

Part II: Criminal prohibitions

1. Criminal Code: overview
2. Wilful cruelty: cause unnecessary suffering - s. 445.1(a)
3. Wilful neglect - x. 446
4. Killing or endangering domestic animals
5. Secondary offences
6. Defences
7. Sentencing

Part III. Regulatory offending: general principles

1. The nature of regulatory offending
2. Defences to regulatory offending
3. Sentencing for regulatory offending

Part IV. Federal animal protection regulations

1. Overview of federal protections and enforcement mechanisms
2. Health of Animals Act
3. Safe Food for Canadians Act

• Table of cases
• Table of statutes