This proposal has my full…

This proposal has my full support.
It is important to provide certainty for the Northern ON tourist industry as many lodges for instance have limited seasons and are marginal businesses. When the spring bear hunt ban was introduced many of them went out of business with the consequent loss of jobs. This certainty will help these marginal businesses stay alive and provide much needed employment in the north.
In addition, my family have a large group of islands on Georgian Bay and, from 1881 to the time that the spring bear hunt was cancelled, we never saw any bears in the May-Oct period when we are there. Ever since then bears have been regular visitors, but there has been a recent decrease in numbers, which I attribute to the reintroduction of the spring bear hunt. The bears we have been seeing usually seem to be distressed, often young bears that are close to starvation, with some exceptions. Bears are a wonderful iconic species, but since humans interfere with their food sources, it is incumbent on us to properly manage their numbers. Furthermore human/bear interactions are not a good thing.