I would be happy to register…

I would be happy to register, but this site refused my e-mail address, which is a perfectly good Ontario one. In any case, I live on Bruce Peninsula, and heartily support any move to reduce bear hunting there, or eliminate it altogether. This area is much too well integrated with the rest of Southwestern Ontario to make bear hunting a necessary or desirable part of our culture.

I would suggest that if hunters in northern Ontario want to shoot more bears, in return for the chance they should agree to do away with baited lures. Baited lures are a cowardly, mean-spirited, way to "hunt" bears, or anything else. They reduce hunting, which is a an honourable, historical, and skillful pursuit when done properly, to mere shooting. Shooting a bear at a baited lure requires no skill, no woodcraft, no real knowledge of the habits of bears. Hunters who are prepared to match their wits with bears have my respect. Hunters who sit on logs waiting for bears to come to a baited lure do not.

Let's have some standards, and some pride.