I’ve have been named on and taken both geese and sandhill cranes under crop protection permits(issued in Ontario) for a couple farmers whose properties I hunted. The permits always specified that the birds could not be hunted and no methods of attracting them by the use of decoys, calls, or any traditional methods could be employed and that shooting them from blinds was not permitted. They could only be killed, not hunted. It also specified the number of birds that could be killed daily and that harvesting of the birds was not permitted. The permits also specified any birds killed must be left exactly where they were shot and were not to be handled or moved. Her story sounds WAY OFF from anything I ever read on any of the permits I was named on and only those named on the permit may use it. The farmers could not hire just anyone. If the permit was in their name they were the only one allowed to kill a bird. They had to submit the name of anyone else they wanted on the permit and on the permit it stated that person was acting as an agent of the permit owner.