The minister of natural resources intends to set up a committee as soon as possible to help implement the recommendations from the exotic animal task force.
Denis Landry says the committee will consist of stakeholders from several goverment departments and agencies along with groups such as the New Brunswick SPCA and provincial veterinary medical association.
“As a minister of natural resources, I know a lot of things but in this field I’m not an expert… not at all. Like this is what we want to do – to put that committee in place as soon as we can and for that committee to tell us how to implement the recommendations… how to put them in place properly.”
Landry says the province does not want to act as a policing agency when it comes to owning or obtaining exotic animals as pets.
He adds the province just wants to make sure a tragedy, like the one in Campbellton where two young boys were strangled by an African rock python, never happens again.
