I am against your proposal…

I am against your proposal to list the double-crested cormorant as a game bird and against creating a hunting season in Ontario for them.

This will have horrendous consequences to wildlife and natural ecosystems in Ontario. But especially to cormorants as your proposal allows for an uncontrolled slaughter of them.

This proposal is in response to unscientific fews and personal opinions by a small few.

I would rather the government use science and facts when making proposals.

This could wipe out our population of cormorants. There is no evidence cormorants harm fish populations. They are not overly abundant.

I'm astonished this was even proposed. Plus a hunting limit of 50 cormorants a day is beyond devastating for these native birds.