Comments

View the comments this notice received through the registry. You can either download them all or search and sort below.

Some comments will not be posted online. Learn more about the comment status and our comment and privacy policies.

Download comments

Search comments

Comment ID

44770

Commenting on behalf of

Individual

Comment status

Comment approved More about comment statuses
The spring bear hunt should be cancelled as it was done in 1999 by Premier Mike Harris & Minister John Snobelen. Most hunters are non residents who hunt by baiting bears. Most cannot distinguish male & female bears at bait stations. Baiting is not hunting. Requires few or no hunting skills. Read more

Comment ID

44771

Commenting on behalf of

Individual

Comment status

Comment approved More about comment statuses
I am not in favor of prohibiting nonresident hurting with an immediate family member. By being able to hunt with a family member I am able to hunt on the farm owned by my daughter and son in-law and am able to take my grandsons hunting on their own farm. Read more

Comment ID

44772

Commenting on behalf of

Individual

Comment status

Comment approved More about comment statuses
We urge the Environmental Registry of Ontario and the Ministry of Natural Resources to abandon their proposal to reintroduce the spring bear hunt. There is no need for the hunt. The human safety argument has been soundly refuted and the economic and certainty arguments are unfounded. Read more

Comment ID

44776

Commenting on behalf of

Individual

Comment status

Comment approved More about comment statuses
I strongly disagree with the spring bear hunt and I want the government to cancel it. Mother bears often leave their cubs in a safe place to hunt for food and the hunters can not distinguish female from male bears. This means female bears are killed and their cubs die as a result. Read more

Comment ID

44777

Commenting on behalf of

Individual

Comment status

Comment approved More about comment statuses
I am pleased to see the extension of the spring bear past 2020 . I think that non resident property owner bear hunters is less of an issue in Northeastern Ontario than it is in Northwestern Ontario .I think non resident property owners should enjoy some benefits as a tax payer of Ontario . Read more

Comment ID

44785

Commenting on behalf of

Individual

Comment status

Comment approved More about comment statuses
Animals deserve the right to life just as much as human beings. We have no right to hunt these animals for sport. Leave them be and allow nature to heal it’s wounds that man kind has created. Do the right thing and prohibit hunting permanently.

Comment ID

44789

Commenting on behalf of

Individual

Comment status

Comment approved More about comment statuses
Do not allow the hunting of bears. Bear cubs will continue to be orphaned if the hunt becomes permanent. While it’s currently against the law to kill cubs and mother bears accompanied by cubs, mother bears often leave their cubs in trees when searching for food. Read more

Comment ID

44790

Commenting on behalf of

Individual

Comment status

Comment approved More about comment statuses
I am totally in opposition to a spring bear hunt. Stop this cruel practice and the creation of so many orphan bears who do not survive given their mothers have been killed. I oppose a bear hunt ever as well. We used to see bears regularly in our area and in the past year, there was not one.

Comment ID

44791

Commenting on behalf of

Individual

Comment status

Comment approved More about comment statuses
A spring bear hunt is so disturbing. A hunter will not differentiate between a male or female bear. Cubs will lose their mother and will be left to starve or be killed by predators. Also, the habit of baiting bears and then killing them is so unsportsmanlike. Read more

Comment ID

44797

Commenting on behalf of

Individual

Comment status

Comment approved More about comment statuses
I totally disagree with the proposal to change the bear hunting licensing for non resident and resident land owners tax payers. It is totally going to decrease tourism and make the hunting a monopoly for the out fitters and is unfair to everyone else. Read more