I'm 63 and hunted moose…

I'm 63 and hunted moose since I was 15 in the Sudbury area. Your proposals for the moose hunt are helpful and encouraging but fall short because they dont mention the elephant in the room. The first nations people , their privileged access to the moose makes many of us feel like second class citizens. Their unmentioned growing harvest and what seems to be totally unregulated is unfair to the rest of us. Access to moose hunting opportunities should include all of us fairly . The conservation officers I've spoken to are as frustrated as we the hunters are with this privileged access. An ignored fact. Another fact is the very reason subsistence hunting was allowed is rarely necessary. To provide much needed food. Most people carrying status cards are of mixed European and native descent practicing none of their culture other than a government appointed privilege to hunt unregulated. They should be under the same laws surrounding hunting as the rest of us unless survival is involved. The native and metis men I've known never asked for special privilege while working in this country or while being part of our armed forces. When people talk of culture , tradition and rights we all have them too. But being a 9th generation Canadian who's forefathers ate moose meat doesn't give me privileges, why should it. Our Prime Minister himself said " A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian " but this is a lie. When it comes to hunting rights.