Until a ban of rodeo is legislated by our elected officials, the Calgary Stampede and rodeos across Canada are like neighbourhood block parties with domestic violence just over the fence within earshot- everyone knows but remain complicit bystander bullies [Criminal Code of Canada 445.1].

As Queen Elizabeth II is the Ontario Royal Agricultural Winter Fair's patron, rodeos were banned in England in 1934:
[RODEO PERFORMANCES [Hansard, 11 April 1934]
Lord O'Hagan:
"Such rodeos cannot be held without entailing suffering on these animals in one way or another."

"One American described the rodeos in this way. The rodeos, he said, are a purely artificial sport devised to satisfy jaded appetites for spectacle. They serve, he says, no good purpose and they are not typical of any authentic frontier life."

"I will not enlarge upon the inevitable effect on the minds of the numerous children who naturally would attend exhibitions of this nature."