This proposal will: -Leave…

This proposal will:
-Leave thousands of dependent baby birds to die of overheating, hypothermia, thirst or
starvation, a cruelty that would be illegal under the Criminal Code of Canada, but is
inevitable given that it takes both parents to tend the eggs and young.
- Create health and environmental hazards from the large numbers of rotting birds.
- Result in increased gun use and subsequent disturbance, particularly in cottage country
during family vacation time.
- Cater to the pro-gun lobby to the effect that guns and killing solve problems
- Again push the cormorant back to endangered status, necessitating full protection
- The Herring Gull, Ring-billed Gull, Common Tern, Caspian Tern, Black-crowned Night Herons, Great Blue Herons, and Great Egrets will also be disturbed during their breeding season by this hunting activity.
- Encourage the belief, contrary to all scientific evidence, that cormorants are responsible
for depletions of game and commercial fish species. We want to educate people about the
environment, not mislead them.
- Encourage stress and divisiveness between the non-hunting majority and the pro-hunting
minority by appealing to those who most want to kill animals, without regard to suffering
- Equate, on the national stage, Ontario with the least-well educated and most corrupt regions
of the world who, also, allow native species to be killed in non-sustainable numbers.

Study after study has demonstrated double-crested cormorants do not seriously affect fish stocks. They mostly eat species of fish of no commercial value and not favoured by sporting anglers.