It's no wonder the general population has such little respect for the hunting community. We have ambassadors with such a skewed sense of reality that they make Donald Trump look like the goddamn Dalai Lama.
This probably isn't worth burning the 2 calories it takes to type this, but call this my pity-induced philanthropy for the day: That 5% doesn't direct the rest of the population. Both are directed by the supreme law: the Canadian Constitution. By 1982 standards, the Constitution Act was reasonably progressive, is it entrenched what the United Nations would adopt by resolution 25 years later, which is a recognition (and protection) of the rights of indigenous cultures. One of those rights is the ability to hunt. So no, I can't just show up in a country and tell the indigenous folks there I'm now going to occupy lands they had previously been occupying and that they can't feed themselves off that land anymore. They must be able to gather food in and engage in traditional ceremonial activities. This is bigger than going to your MLA.
I wholly agree the current system does a sh!t job of demanding stewardship from aboriginals, and that First Nations want to govern their activities but most have neither the physical nor technological capacity to undertake adequate resource (wildlife) management, but those are separate discussions. This discussion is that aboriginals have a constitutionally protected right to hunt and honky hunters hate the fact we don't have it too. But we don't. Get used to it. It has nothing to do with aboriginals comprising 5% of our population directing the rest. It has to do with our ancestors taking up residence in a largely inhabited land and their governments neither conquering nor ratifying agreements (treaties) with the indigenous peoples of the lands. Now that justice is catching up with us and saying, "hang on, before all of us VISITORS can have access to the resources, the original inhabitants have to be able to feed themselves the way they always have",we think it's a bum deal.
It is completely moot that your forefathers fought in the war because they were fighting for the Commonwealth, not for the sovereign state of Canada which had legally or forcibly extinguished all aboriginal rights at the time.
Rather than trying to revert ourselves back to primitive times and ideologies, why don't "you and your ilk" put your efforts toward something productive like figuring out how we can reliably track FN fish and big game harvests, and improve wildlife management and habitat stewardship so that there will be enough to provide hunting opportunities for us and them? Because as soon as there are not enough, they get first crack and we get to sit around and bitch. Fuxake people. If you're going to call your MLA, do it and demand that we resource better wildlife management, inclusive of the provision of sustenance opportunities for both FNs and non FNs, not for the impossible request to relinquish aboriginal rights.