I firmly reject the Ministry…

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I firmly reject the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry’s proposal to allow new licenses and the transfer of licenses for train and trial areas in Ontario.
Many countries in Europe (including Great Britain) have banned these facilities and hunting methods decades ago. Not only is chase hunting with dogs a cruel and barbaric hunting method, it also has detrimental impacts on the ecosystem. If white-tailed deer for instance are constantly being harassed by dogs chasing through their habitat, the deer will abort their fetuses when stressed even though the deer are not the target of the hunt. Also this hunting method has a dreadful impact on ground nesting birds, who will abandon their nests and nesting grounds. Since coyote hunting started around 2017 in our area, we hardly have any wildlife left. Coyote hunters often hunt continuously and the same area for months on end.
Many of these so called coyote hunters never bother asking landowners for permission to run their dogs on their property. They just do it. Where I live in Eastern Ontario near Smiths Falls, hunting dogs have almost caused several collisions on busy highway 43! Is it really worth the risk of causing a serious collision worth satisfying the needs of a handful of hunter?
Furthermore, coyotes are a vital part of the ecosystem to thin out sick and diseased animals like deer with chronic wasting disease
As many countries around the world have realized the negative impact of chase hunting with dogs has on the ecosystem as well as how utterly cruel and outdated this hunting method is, Ontario apparently wants to revert to the middle ages!
Using dogs as bait to train fighting dogs is illegal, so why are these so called training facilities not illegal as well??? They are both the same.