hmmmm...I don't think this is gonna go the way they think it is. Now we're gonna have a black market and reams of new puppy mills. 
linkieToronto — Ontario residents will be prohibited from buying or raising pit bull terriers under tough new legislation to be introduced this fall.
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The new law will allow people who own pit bulls now to keep their pets, but only under tightly controlled conditions, Attorney General Michael Bryant said Friday.
Pit bull owners will be required to have their dogs spayed or neutered, and the dogs will have to be kept leashed and muzzled, Bryant said.
Once the law is passed, breeding or selling the dogs will become illegal provincewide.
The law would also increase fines up to a maximum of $10,000 and allow for jail sentences of up to six months for owners of any dangerous dog that bites, attacks, or poses a threat to public safety.
"People want to be protected from the menace of these dangerous dogs," said Bryant.
"Some of these dogs are nothing but a loaded weapon waiting to go off and so we are taking action to make our communities safer."
Bryant said the legislation would be introduced within a month.
The government legislation comes in response to numerous pit-bull attacks on Ontario residents, including a number of children.
In a recent incident in Toronto, two of the animals continued to attack a man even after police shot them repeatedly.
The legislation will make Ontario the first Canadian province to ban pit bulls outright.
Municipalities in the province already have the option of banning pit bulls under the Ontario Municipal Act. The cities of Kitchener, Waterloo, and Windsor have effectively banned pit bulls and placed restrictions on owners.
Winnipeg has had a ban on the dogs since 1990, and cities including Vancouver have vicious-dog bylaws requiring the dogs to be muzzled and leashed.
