Before re-instating the…

Before re-instating the spring bear hunt in Ontario, how about considering the sustainability of this proposal. This is 2020 and the killing of animals for an individual's fun is no longer seen as sporting, rather it is more akin to being pretty selfish. Bears, like all living things, are finite in numbers. Their death by tourism is neither a sport, nor is it what tourism is all about these days. It seems ironic to tout the wonder of our country and province as still having these magnificent creatures still in the wild, and then allowing the killing of them by baiting and worse. Like all living creature, they have a right to exist alongside humans, in their own right.

Please stop deflecting the real issue by suggesting that bears are a danger to all humans. It is precisely because of the type of interactions bear have with hunters, and baiting that they get accustomed to being around humans in the first place. Most wild bears don't want to be near man, they avoid interactions if at all possible. So don't stick hunters into the bears' habitats, and then tell us how dangerous they are when more conflict with man ensues.

Stop this outdated practice. Ontario is better than this.