I have lived in Quebec for most of my life. I agree with the author. It's shameful and unconscionable how pets, livestock (e.g., those enormous pig farms), and wild animals are treated. It's as if we're all stuck in 1750, when life was extremely hard for people, but the forests extended from horizon to horizon, and the waters teemed with fish. We're not in that world anymore!
My few years in Ontario were quite different, vis à vis cultural attitudes towards animals.  
I have to admit I stay here because the benefits outweigh the costs. But I do whatever I can to alert people to the loss of green spaces, the poor treatment of companion animals, and the cruelty of industrial agriculture (all of which exist outside of Quebec, of course).