Pamela Anderson took her worldwide crusade against Canada's annual seal hunt to eTalk Daily, asking the prime minister to accept a U.S. businesswoman's offer of $16 million to stop the annual cull.

Earlier this week, Cathy Kangas, the head of a U.S.-based beauty products company, said she would be prepared to raise the money to help stop the seal hunt off Canada's East Coast.

Cathy Kangas is also a member of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, and she wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper calling on him to "welcome an economic solution to the seal hunt."

Anderson, who has accused Harper of being "in the back pocket of special interest groups rather than the leader of the people," says the offer is an example of growing support for the anti-sealing campaign.

"People of all walks of life are coming out of the woodwork all around the world to stop this senseless slaughter," Anderson told eTalk. "Canadian taxpayers should be outraged...since it would save the millions of tax dollars that currently support (the) hunt."

However, Steven Outhouse, spokesman for Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn, said the federal government would not be taking Kangas up on her offer.

"Besides the fact that most within the industry say it's worth more than $16 million ... and notwithstanding the fact that this is an annual income, I don't know whether she was planning to offer $16 million a year for the next decade or if this was a one-time deal or what have you,'' he said.

Canadian officials are defended the hunt as an important source of income for coastal communities in Atlantic Canada and Quebec. They also say it's necessary to control the size of seal herds in order to help the recovery of depleted fish stocks.