E-7272 Prohibit live animals in military training Petition Tracker | Signature Growth — Canadian Petition Tracker
Track E-7272 — Prohibit live animals in military training — with 1,509 signatures and counting. Sponsored by Eric Duncan. See signature growth trends and provincial breakdown on PetitionTracker.ca.
Canonical URL: https://petitiontracker.ca/petition/e-7272
Petition Details
- Status: Closed
- Closing date: July 15, 2026
- Sponsor: Eric Duncan (Stormont—Dundas—Glengarry)
- Category: Animals
Signature Statistics
- Total signatures: 1,509
- Daily increase: +30 in the last 24 hours
- Seven-day increase: +405 over the last 7 days
- Growth velocity: ~58 new signatures per day (7-day average)
- Tracking started: March 25, 2026 — 289 data points recorded
Milestones
- 1,000 signatures reached on June 2, 2026 — total at that point: 1,024
- Debate threshold (500 signatures) reached on April 16, 2026 — total at that point: 772
Provincial Distribution
- Ontario: 649 signatures
- British Columbia: 256 signatures
- Quebec: 213 signatures
- Alberta: 198 signatures
- Manitoba: 74 signatures
- Nova Scotia: 36 signatures
- New Brunswick: 24 signatures
- Saskatchewan: 19 signatures
- Prince Edward Island: 12 signatures
- Newfoundland and Labrador: 6 signatures
- Northwest Territories: 2 signatures
- Yukon: 2 signatures
Historical Signature Growth
| Date | Signatures |
|---|
| March 25, 2026 | 242 |
| March 30, 2026 | 283 |
| April 6, 2026 | 329 |
| April 11, 2026 | 357 |
| April 16, 2026 | 532 |
| April 25, 2026 | 681 |
| May 5, 2026 | 775 |
| May 18, 2026 | 801 |
| May 30, 2026 | 965 |
| June 7, 2026 | 1,052 |
| June 23, 2026 | 1,085 |
| July 10, 2026 | 1,205 |
| July 15, 2026 | 1,509 |
Petition Text
Petition to the Minister of National Defence
Whereas:
• pigs are intelligent and sentient animals capable of fear, distress, and social bonding;
• modern medical simulation technologies are widely available and are increasingly used in military medical training;
• over 70 percent of NATO member nations have already transitioned away from the use of animals in military medical training;
• documents obtained through Access to Information requests indicate that anatomical differences make pigs poor models for training medics to treat human injuries and may create “training scars” where techniques learned on animals do not translate properly to human casualties; and
• records indicate that hundreds of piglets have been used in Canadian military training exercises despite the availability of more humane and scientifically relevant alternatives.
We, the undersigned, Citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to prohibit the use of live animals, including piglets, in Canadian Armed Forces medical and trauma training and to transition fully to modern, non-animal simulation technologies.
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