Media Advisory - May 28 - Animal Lovers and Their Pets to March on Parliament Hill to demand ban of manufacture and sale of animal-tested cosmetic products in Canada

11:30 am, Sparks Street Mall - The Body Shop Canada and Cruelty-Free International team up with animal lovers and their pets to march on Parliament Hill

12:30pm, Parliament Hill -  delivery of the largest petition (625,000 signatures) to Federal Parliament since the campaign to create the Canadian Bill of Rights in 1949.

OTTAWA, May 25, 2018 /CNW/ - On Monday May 28^th, Canada's pet lovers and their animals are marching on Parliament Hill today to deliver Canada's largest ever federal petition in over seventy years. Their goal is to convince the Government of Canada to ban the sale and manufacture of animal-tested cosmetic products in Canada.

The march will begin at 11:30am at the Sparks Street Mall. The animal lovers and their pets will then walk to Parliament Hill for a media conference and presentation of the petitions to Members of Parliament at 12:30pm. 

Photo and video opportunities:	Animal lovers and their pets
	Delivery of 640,000 petitions to Parliamentarians
Interview opportunities with:	GM of The Body Shop Canada, Toby Milton
	Senior manager, International Campaigns and Corporate Responsibility, The Body Shop Global, Jessie MacNeil-Brown
	Campaign Leader for Cruelty Free International, Monica Engebretson
	MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith (Lib)
	MP Michelle Rempel (Cons.)
	Senator Carolyn Stewart-Olsen (Cons.)

For more information, go to: www.ForeverAgainstAnimalTesting.com.

SOURCE The Body Shop

Ted Griffith, Campbell Strategies, [email protected], 416 518 8306