As more people settle in…

As more people settle in urban environments, connections to traditional pastimes diminish. The majority of ubanites are not aware of traditional/ancestorial activities and how they have contributed to the Canada we now have. A lot of these folks are opposed to anything involving "hunting" and the use of cultivated game for possible training purposes. As voters they tend to steer governments eg. Ontario's Provincial Govt policies and actions to react to the lowest common denominator - masses of urban dwellers at the expense of a more "out of doors" contingent. This is wrong. Not to appear biased, but if natives/aboriginal communities want to expand training activities or set up new training sites, the Government would quickly capitulate and if nothing else, allow such sites and activities to operate under the radar/outside of the law.

The fact that training locations have disappeared speaks volumes. The Government is tacitly shutting down these facilities - making it impossible for them to continue. The bureaucrats who push these agendas likely never participate in said activities.

I want to see these activities expanded. People like myself should not have to be excluded from said activities because facilities are way too distant to access or have become too exclusive and expensive to avail facilities and services. More competition will lower costs (supply/demand) and allow more folks to participate in training activities and further knowledge about interest in hunting dogs.

Ontario needs to support access to lands and activities which take place in more natural, rural, and out door settings. Please allow this to happen - facilitate more training opportunities - not cater exclusively to metropolitan voters. Encourage and further diversity and reduce homogeneous mindsets.