I will admit that am not pro…

I will admit that am not pro-hunting to manage wildlife populations at all, but this bill exceeds the limits of good sense for three reasons. The first is to allow hunting of the birds from a standing boat. Translated, this means that a person could be in a boat along the harbour front in Toronto with a gun shooting toward the shore at birds. This is ludicrous. It only takes two seconds to imagine the potential of shooting a person. The second is the plan to modify the requirement to retrieve and dispose of the dead bird bodies. This bill proposes that people don't have to do any such thing and can actually just leave the carcasses of these large dead birds to rot on our Toronto waterfront. The allowance to shoot is 50 birds per person per day. Just imagine how putrid this will be on the water front. The City of Toronto has spent a significant amount of our tax dollars to beautify and maintain the Toronto waterfront and this bill flies in the face of this. The potential revenue loss from people refusing to attend the waterfront is huge. Finally, we, as a people, need to figure out a way to embrace the wildlife that resides in our cities and towns instead of arbitrarily killing anything that we feel is a nuisance or an irritant. There are studies from here to kingdom come illustrating the negative results of creating an imbalance in nature, of eradicating species, of overhunting etc. etc. Perhaps, for once, we could try learning from our past mistakes and make the better plan to live harmoniously with our wildlife before we kill it all.