I am writing to ask you to…

I am writing to ask you to reconsider the wholesale slaughter of double breasted cormorants, a species indigenous to Ontario. As I understand it, there are only about 125 000 individuals of this native bird left in Ontario. Hunting this bird at the rate that you propose only reinforces an unbridled lack of respect for life which in this day and age should not be reinforced. Given the card/licence required, the fact that the murder of 50 cormorants/day, with the possible 1 500/month, or more than 14 000/season (March 15-December 31), and allowing the bodies of dead birds to lie where they fall and rot is not a practice conducive to habits which instill care and concern for living things. It is callow. The cormorant has been accused of depleting commercial fish stocks. This is odd because scientists report that the birds dive, catch and feed on coarse fish. A CBC report last August talked about cormorants in the Toronto area being afflicted with NEWCASTLE DISEASE from feeding on Alewife fish and dying from the virus. I cannot support a government that, like the Wynne Government in its allowing the killing of Mourning Doves, facilitates the disregard for a creature that was here long before we were.