4 Without MercyThe Chief of Police for the province of British Columbia, David Taylor, drove despondently down the long gravel drive to the gaudy mansion belonging to the Canadian Fisherman’s Co-operative’s President. Try as he might, he could not to clear his wildly spinning mind. The CFC was sick; some would say terminally. The disastrously bad PR generated by seal culling in past years had taken its toll on the group - largely because President Raymond Franks had staunchly defended the co-operative’s position when all about him were losing their heads. That blinkered intransigence had earned him - and by association, the CFC - a special place in the annals of animal butchery. The peaceful early hours of the morning afforded Franks little comfort as he sat on the battered marbled steps

