I am strongly opposed to…

I am strongly opposed to this proposal for the following reasons:
This proposal will leave dependent baby birds to die, 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; cater to the pro-gun lobby to the effect that guns and killing solve problems; once again push the cormorant back to endangered status, necessitating full protection; also disturb the Herring Gull, Ring-billed Gull, Common Tern, Caspian Tern, Black-crowned Night Herons, Great Blue Herons, and Great Egrets 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; cause 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; and equate 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.
Furthermore, 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 so are not economical harmful.
Please do the right thing and do not open cormorants to a hunting season.
Thank you.