‘I also know that bear hunting is for most hunters a “sport” and not a primary or necessary food-gathering activity. We can be confident that the many Americans and other non-residents who travel to northern Ontario for the spring bear hunt are not coming because they need bear protein’
By Peter John Ferris, North Bay.
The Ford government is proposing to permanently reintroduce the spring bear hunt, a year before the current five-year pilot program is set to expire and before its results are complete and made public. This proposal is being made under the guidance of the Ontario Big Game Management Advisory Committee, a body that is hopelessly weighted in favor of hunters, tourism operators, and outfitters.
In 1999, the Conservative government cancelled the spring bear hunt over concerns about cubs being orphaned by their mothers being killed. In the last spring hunt before the…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Sport hunting “is” killing wild animals for fun, even if the “sportsmen” eat the meat. It is never “fair chase”. The sportsman use a high powered rifle usually with scope and did not yell out, “Ready, set, go!” Then count to a hundred. There is little difference in trophy hunting and sport hunting. Killing begets killing. Both lead to poaching. Neither are conservation and neither are wholesome activities.