I am grateful to David VanderZwaag, Vaughan Black, Hugh Kindred, and Jodi Lazare of the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. Thank you all for sharing your enormous expertise, and for your support. Thanks as well to Nicolas Lamp of the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University for your encouragement and your inspiring ideas. And thank you to Ilana Luther, who helped get me through. Many others have helped me to develop and improve this work. Rob Howse and Joanna Langille have been my writing partners on several seal-related projects, and I have learned so much from working with them. I am very grateful to Camille Labchuk of Animal Justice Canada, Rebecca Aldworth of Humane Society International, and Stuart Trew of the Canadian Centre on Policy Alternatives for helpful discussions about the themes of this book from the NGO perspective.