The needless slaughter of baby seals in Newfoundland every year is an embarrassment and disgrace. Canada must outlaw the seal hunt. Canadian politicians have been in capable of ending this primitive practice – the largest killing of marine mammals in the world – even as damage to the country’s reputation, some businesses and the image of the 2010 Olympics grows. Animal-rights activists have elicited condemnations from the U.S. Senate, President Barack Obama and the European Union which just im