Local Canada Goose Store Faces Post-Pandemic Protest

PETA Will Show Shoppers Graphic Reasons Why They Should Never Buy Fur-and-Feather Parkas

For Immediate Release:
June 17, 2020

Contact:
Nicole Meyer 202-483-7382

PETA supporters—adhering to social distancing guidelines and wearing masks—will descend on Canada Goose’s Montreal store on Thursday to demand that the company stop using feathers from slaughtered birds and fur from coyotes caught in steel traps. Instead of handing out leaflets, demonstrators will display a QR code that passersby can scan to access a hands-free “virtual leaflet” with information about the cruelty inherent in every Canada Goose garment. PETA is also holding protests at other Canada Goose stores in cities across Canada, including Edmonton, Calgary, and Banff.

When:    Thursday, June 18, 12 noon

Where:    Outside Canada Goose, 1020 Saint-Catherine St. W. (at the intersection with Peel Street), Montreal

“Behind every fur-collared and down-filled jacket are wonderful coyotes who fought for their lives while caught in traps and gentle geese whose throats were slit,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA wants consumers to know that if they care about animals, the last place they should be shopping is Canada Goose.”

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to wear”—notes that trapped coyotes can succumb to the elements, blood loss, infection, or attacks by predators before trappers return to kill them. Geese and ducks used for down are typically shoved into crates and shipped in all weather extremes to slaughterhouses, where they’re stunned, their throats are cut, and their bodies are dunked into scalding-hot defeathering tanks.

Following a PETA complaint and a subsequent Federal Trade Commission investigation, Canada Goose stopped claiming that its standards ensure that its suppliers don’t abuse animals. In February, Forbes reported, “Canada Goose shares fell 42% in the past year as investors grew increasingly concerned about slowing growth, inventory levels and the backlash it has faced over its use of coyote fur.”

PETA opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.