Editing Cockfighting (section)

=== Canada ===

Canada's Criminal Code includes animal cruelty legislation, which criminalize any kind of fighting or baiting of any animal.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/annualstatutes/2008_12/page-1.html |title=Canada Justice Laws Website|date=15 November 2019 }}</ref> These laws have been amended and made more restrictive over time, and as of 2018 include bans on fighting, promoting, arranging and profiting from fights, as well as breeding, training and transporting of animals for the purpose of fights and keeping of arenas for the purpose of animal fights, for animals of any kind.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/government-of-canada-announces-measures-to-strengthen-legal-protections-for-children-vulnerable-individuals-and-animals-697923891.html |title=Government of Canada announces measures to strengthen legal protections for children, vulnerable individuals, and animals}}</ref>