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This year, a day before Tax Day, PETA members and local animal rights groups held demonstrations across Canada with seal bodies laying dead on a pile of fake money. The purpose of the demonstration was to bring awareness of the fact that cruelty aside, the seal slaughter should stop because it costs tax paying families 7 million dollars each year - according to a study at the University of Guelph. In 2009, the government spent 7 million dollars on the seal hunt, when it only brought in 1 million in revenue. On top of that our government is expected to shell out an estimated $10 million dollars to fight the EU ban on seal products. The seal slaughter cannot support itself financially, and is only alive because the government is reaching into the pockets of the same tax paying families that polls showed are against the seal slaughter (as a majority of Canadians are against the seal slaughter).