We draw the attention of sponsors: Ministère de l'Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport du Québec La Fondation canadienne pour l’innovation Développement économique Canada to the following: The petitioners are concerned that the confinement and manipulation of the highly sentient and sociable macaques and marmosets involved will cause levels of pain and stress, despite claims to the contrary made by INRS (Institut national de recherche scientifique), the agency running the project. We need to urge INRS decision-makers to realize that the substantial investment on animal research that is proposed, is unlikely to foster health research advancement and ultimately human health. By endorsing this new research primate center, INRS authorities fail to observe that non-human primate research has already caused a great amount of harm. Reliance on animal models has caused human suffering and death, indirectly delayed medical progress and diverted research funds away from more scientific methodologies.  The rigorous supervision and respect of international standards of animal car, as claimed by INRS, falls short to improve a methodology with a track record of failure (animal modeling). INRS states that monkeys are representative of the human condition; however IRNS fails to prove this statement. IRNS’s claimed participation in past achievements (vaccines for Tuberculosis, Polio, Influenza, measles), as underlined by INRS Director Mr. Pierre Lapointe, offers no evidence that: 1) animal models were essential to the discovery, efficacy, safety of such vaccines 2) that animal models remain essential, as of today. The fact that one animal model is being used in a particular type of research is no evidence that this animal model is essential.  Therefore: The Undersigned ask the ministère de l'Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport du Québec, la Fondation canadienne pour l’innovation and Développement économique Canada to stop financing and supporting a new primate research center (CNBE) in Montreal QC, designed to house from 150 to 200 non-human primates to test vaccines for malaria, hepatitis, AIDS, and to study cardiovascular conditions. By signing this petition the Undersigned petitioners advise INRS NOT to proceed with its plan to build a new animal research facility in the Montreal area. No sentient being should be subjected to the horrors of vivisection regardless of the possible benefits to human kind. Read why this project should not go on: A Critique of Monkey Research at INRS (PDF)	'Say No to a New Primate Research Center in Canada' PETITION TO: Ministère de l'Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport du Québec La Fondation canadienne pour l’innovation Développement économique Canada Author: Canadians for the Advancement of Health Research Say NO to the creation of a new primate research center in the Montreal region (Canada), designed to house from 150 to 200 non-human primates who will be used to test vaccines allegedly for malaria, hepatitis, AIDS, and study cardiovascular conditions. An investment of 22.5 million dollars, mostly tax-payers money from federal government will be required. It is regrettable that this money is not being used to foster more ethical and scientific human-based research and technologies not relying on the use of non-human primates.
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	Petition powered by ThePetitionSite.com 1) Letter from INRS, introducing the new primate research center (CNBE) 2) CAHR's first letter to INRS 3) Contact the people involved with the CNBE