No SpottedPony isn’t trolling, I’m simply trying to get a feel for the messaging being put out in this thread. Reading back at threads from the past it strikes me that the contributors on this forum are a disgruntled group with little to agree on. In the past the Liberals were on the outs with many of the posters on this site while the NDP and AJ Weaver were held in high regard. Now after only a few short months of NDP/Weaver leadership the tide has changed and many asking for a return of the Liberals who sold out the resident meat hunters in favour of giving more to the guides. The NDP and Weaver haven’t really given much away. All they did was cancel the grizzly hunt as the Liberals were already proposing to partially do anyway. That didn’t really take too much meat out of the provincial food supply, the only real loss I can see from that cancelled hunt is the monetary loss to the commercial hunters. It’s a pretty goofy closure anyways with our indeginouse community still able to hunt the bears. I guess that would have to be called a racial closure of the hunt.You can’t blame the NDP and Weaver for keeping the grizzly hunt open to our native people, that’s a decision made by Mr Trudeau.
As for the numbers posted for the number of hunters in region 6, the question to ask ourselves does it really show what’s going on or is it really just a whitewashed portrayal to disregard the truth. Any good accountant can tell you that the books can be doctored to put forth the numbers that best suit your wishes. When you read about the implementation of LEH seasons, the outright closure of other areas and the declining moose population province wide it’s really hard to believe that hunters are still as evenly spread out in region 6 or for that matter anywhere in the province as they were in the 1970’s.
To me it seems there are many unanswered questions and simply saying everything is still the same can not be the true message but moreso a numerical game coverup.