This proposal is an…

This proposal is an abomination against common sense, science-based policy decision, transparency and more than a century’s worth of evolution of effective wildlife management and I ask that it be rejected out of hand. 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.
- 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.