I don't agree with this hunt…

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I don't agree with this hunt which might wipe out a native bird species, the cormorant. The hunting and fishing lobbyists and those with a vested interest including politicians don't have a right to meddle in Canadians' nature landscape, environment or the birds - the cormorants that live there. That a few should outnumber the voices of the majority is not part of the charter of rights and freedoms and democratic political processes. I've read scientists' a and expert articles that are deeply disturbed if this hunt was to be implemented and I am behind this information and advice from the experts who know how wildlife and ecosystems work. Some of the articles are found on many organization' websites who are against this hunt and who represent the majority of Canadians who are humane and enjoy interacting with birds and animals without killing them. These are the Canadians who represent what Canada means to the world a progressive nation that is supposed to be forging a path ahead and welcoming to all and that is including the native cormorant bird species. Where is the humanity in people, does decision-making like this really seem routine when hundreds of birds' are at stake and a species will be wiped out and left to rot in the landscape? Life is short and money is not everything, money will not bring back a whole species and it will not bring back confidence in this backwards path that Ontario is going on. When you see the dead bodies rotting around the natural landscapes and Canadians who are out and about enjoying nature interacting with hunters unwillingly who are there to kill aimlessley well than what will you decision-makers say, that you didn't know that you didn't care what Canadians want and are really about? Just to satisfy unfairly a few niche groups who are not going by the scientific knowledge that killing cormorants will not help their purported reasoning for the hunt, but rather justify the sport of hunting and making the native cormorant to be a cheap easy target to look like things are getting done. I don't want anyone bagging beautiful cormorant birds in Ontario shooting them. It is outrageous that this is even proposed in this day and age where animals should be protected and the academic scholars, environmentalists and biologists are backing this protection, and not just them but most Canadians and Ontarians.