Canadian law banned leg-hold traps in favor of instant-kill body-hold traps.

Evidence

His own hands are telling: woodsman’s hands broad and strong enough to set a trap or a logging chain but sensitive enough to stroke a pelt to gauge its thickness. By the time we spoke, leg-hold traps had been banned in Canada and only body-hold traps that ensure a sudden death were permitted. He demonstrates one: it takes two strong arms to open and set, and its powerful snap would break a neck in an instant. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 696

Categorization

• XREF: Legal-institutional thread directly relevant to the Legal Systems course on how regulation mediates the take-life relationship.