Animal welfare law in canada

Assignment 3: Animal law
Mary Carey, who lives in Vancouver, is very fond of animals.

For many years she has owned a domestic rabbit named Harry who lives in her bedroom. However, she has become concerned that Harry does not have a very meaningful life, so she thinks she will release him in a park so he can live free for the rest of his days.
Mary would not be lonely, however, because last year friends brought her a lovely robin called “Berry” who had flown into their window. Mary nursed him back to health, but he cannot fly, so Mary keeps him in a large cage in her yard.
Mary is worried, however, that Berry might catch bird flu from other birds, so whenever wild songbirds build a nest in her yard, she destroys the nest to keep the wild birds away.
She is especially concerned because her neighbour keeps a 30-year-old Andean condor in his garden. (Mary has nick-named him “Scary”.) The neighbour received the condor from his father who bred exotic birds in British Columbia decades ago. The neighbour insists that the condor is securely confined in a flight pen, but Mary fears for Berry’s safety if the condor should ever escape. Therefore, she thinks she will secretly poison the condor by throwing some meat soaked in antifreeze into the condor’s pen.
In case this does not work, Mary has also decided to pursue legal channels. Surely, she reasoned, it must be against the law to keep such a dangerous, exotic bird as an Andean condor in a private residence in Vancouver, so she asks her lawyer to report the neighbour to the authorities.
The lawyer, wanting to help Mary and keep her on the right side of the law, checks whether the neighbour can legally keep the condor, and whether Mary herself might be violating any laws. What should the lawyer advise for each of the five actions? For each law that you cite, give its correct name, specify whether it is a federal statute (Canada), provincial statute (BC), or municipal by-law (Vancouver), and report what the law says about the legality of the action.

Marking: Four marks will be given for each of the five actions noted above if the response gives (1) the correct name of the one or two laws that are most relevant to the case, (2) whether the law is federal, provincial or municipal, and (3) how the law applies to the action in question. The 20 marks will then be expressed as a mark out of 10. If different laws apply (e.g., Criminal Code, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, Wildlife Act, Migratory Birds Convention Act, Municipal by-laws), cite up to two, remembering that violating the Criminal Code is more serious than violating a municipal by-law.

A list of references is not needed, but be sure to give the correct names of laws etc. as noted above. There is no need to describe the punishments that may apply.