Ontario Premier Doug Ford has reiterated he plans to introduce legislation banning medical testing on cats and dogs, expanding on that Monday by adding it would focus on experimentation on animals he considers "pets."

Ford first mentioned banning scientific research on dogs and cats two weeks ago, when he vowed to start "hunting down" anyone doing such work after learning of a report citing canine research at London's Lawson Research Institute and St. Joseph's Health Care London.

The report by the Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB) at the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health revealed researchers were inducing three-hour heart attacks in dogs before euthanizing them.

On Monday, Ford was at a news conference in London to make a housing announcement when aske

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