The option is right there in the article:

Under provincial law, Ontario has the power to seize the whales to ensure their safety – recouping any costs incurred when the park is sold.

They won’t survive in the wild and the China option is inhumane.

The best option currently is to put them down but it’s abhorrent that it’s even possible to be in this situation.

I don't actually disagree with that, which is why "don't euthanise them but also don't do anything with them" isn't being accepted by the company as an answer. I only know MarineLand from the ads, but any habitat multiple whales can at least sort of live in will be no joke.

50/50 chance they survive in the wild. 100% chance they die by being euthanized. Even if they die in the wild, they will feed the eco system. Even domesticated animals will eat their deceased owners when they get hungry enough. The only animal I can think of that won’t eat when hungry is a lonely guinea pig.

True

Their odds of survival in the wild are higher than being euthanized by a billionaire in an animal hostage crisis.

Why not let the rules of nature decide? Unlike human society, that lets the weak rule the strong, only the strong may survive in the wild. That is natural selection.

Or even an adult who has never gone camping being dropped in the middle of Alaska, the Amazon, or the Ghobi desert. Odds of survival are low and they are gonna suffer from starvation, thirst, getting sick from eating/drinking from the wrong sources, or being prey to something they don't know how to avoid. Maybe all four!

The alternative is the equivalent of shooting the toddlers in the back of the head.

Either way is horrible.

Not necessarily. These animals can be acclimatized and eased into it in stages to give them a fighting chance. Even if the chance of success is slim, I still fully expect the assholes who decided to breed these animals in captivity to be financially liable to cover the cost of that.

Otherwise, whoever owns these animals should be legally bound to financially support them until they die of old age. If someone decides to breed sentient creatures in captivity they should know that they can't just discard them like an old newspaper if that doesn't turn out to be a good investment.

It's funny how they didn't have any problem paying the huge expense of bringing them there but suddenly money is scarce when it is time to take care of them or brigning them back.

They should be legally required to pay to fix it. To me this is no different than an oil company having to pay to cleanup whenever they make a spill.

It could be argued that finding a new home for them is worse in the long run as it has more potential to prolong abuse and captivity of whales. If the new home loosens their standards and started abusing the whales, new whales could be brought in and abused as the older ones pass away. Euthanasing could bring an end to that cycle, although none of options here are particularly good.

Someonen else linked a link where they can be rehabited, probably too much cost for the shitty park

Everyone is screaming about the treatment (and I mean justifiable), but no one is willing to offer an actual solution. I ain't an expert on the topic of Beluga whales, but I mean if a wild release was possible and the best solution, why aren't these people getting involved then? Likely because it's maybe not the best solution.

So that leaves the government of Ontario to step in, and OK, but problem remains the same. All these supposed sanctuaries that people want them to live in, again, where are they and why aren't they stepping in? Because such a thing might not exist.

Would love to be totally wrong here, but this has the makings of a boondoggle.

What would take longer to kill them, starving or the allegedly guaranteed death from releasing them?

Seems to me that they'd stand a better chance in the wild compared to being left in a tank to starve.

Maybe a ocean area blocked off and they get retrained and released.

Edit seems they can

https://savedolphins.eii.org/campaigns/fow

I do seriously wonder when marine mammals will end up the Great Lakes. Like a seal population in the 1000 islands might be a thing our lifetime given climate change