I urge the Ontario PC…

I urge the Ontario PC government to cancel the Spring Bear Hunt altogether.

Female bears give birth to cubs in early spring and keep them hidden in trees while the mother forages for food. Since it's very difficult to determine the sex of a bear in the wild, many mother bears are shot and killed, leaving the orphaned cubs to die a slow death by starvation or a violent death by predators. This is very cruel and inhumane.

It's untrue that moose populations are compromised by bears. In fact, wildlife experts who actually study animals in their natural habitats, will tell you that when left alone, animal populations, both predator and prey, regulate themselves. Predators are not going to kill all of their prey, otherwise predators die out. It makes sense. It's only when humans try to manage wildlife populations that problems arise.

Most Ontarians do not hunt nor do they support killing wild animals. I don't feel that Ontario should be open for the unsavoury business of killing our wild animals, and I will not support a governing party that allows hunting. A modern province can develop a better tourism plan than inviting non-resident sport hunters who enjoy killing wildlife, animals who have little hope of escape, onto our mutually owned public lands. Ontario’s forests belong to all of us, not just to the businesses that profit from violence against wild animals.