'We need to get them out': Beluga trainer fired by Marineland speaks out

TORONTO - Marineland's crumbling infrastructure, staffing shortage and lack of resources have created dangerous conditions for its belugas and they should be moved immediately, a fired beluga trainer says.

Kristy Burgess, who worked at the Niagara Falls, Ont., park when a young beluga was put down in February, said Marineland's threat to euthanize all 30 of its remaining belugas if it doesn't receive emergency funding is a "repulsive" tactic that uses the whales as leverage.