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- Related Stories Below The Line 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Oscars, Grammys, Guilds & More News The 2026 Oscars: Everything We Know About The Ceremony, Host, Date & More So Far “If you have enough money, you can buy a polar bear skin,” Joffe said.
- “You can actually go shoot one yourself.” The film shows Canada to be one of the worst offenders in not protecting polar bears, whose population is down to between 22,000 and 31,000.
- Watch on Deadline “About two-thirds of the polar bears in the world live in Canada, and it’s a little bit unfortunate, I think, for the species that so much of the population does reside in Canada,” Joffe said.
- “Canada continues to be the only country in the world that exports its polar bear population into the trade market.
- And it is a shocking thing for most people to realize.” Trade Secret exposes many other shocking details in other countries, which Joffe did not want to reveal to viewers before they see the film.



