I would like to express my…

I would like to express my firm opposition to the proposed changes to the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act and accompanying Ontario Regulation 668/98, Wildlife in Captivity, through notice Notice 019-3685.

If adopted, this proposal would allow new licenses, and the transfer of existing licenses, for dog "train and trial" areas in Ontario.

I believe that penned dog hunting facilities, used to train dogs to hunt, are cruel to the wild animals used as bait. No animal should be taken from its proper, natural environment and imprisoned by hunters. Such facilities are akin to the abhorrent "canned" hunting facilities, and to me have no business whatsoever in Ontario, or any society or geo/political entity that professes to be civilized.

Rather than permitting new facilities such as these, the 24 that already exist in Ontario should be shut down immediately.