Ontario Hunting Regulations

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Shooter's Choice just posted this on their Facebook page. Looks like the Ontario Gov doesn't want to print paper copies of the regs anymore.


We have been notified that we WILL NOT be getting any printed Hunting Regulations this year and in the future. The Ministry of Natural Resources is trying to force everyone to go to the internet and print the regulations for themselves.

We must act now and show them that we as hunters want a printed set of regulations every year.

We must act together and quickly to show what all of us as hunters want. Contact Jeff Standaert, Senior Marketing and Production Coordinator for the Ministry of Natural Resources at 705.755.1902 and tell him that we want printed regulations.

LET'S ALL LET HIM KNOW WHAT WE THINK OF THIS!!!

edit: Here is the Minister's email address minister.mnr@ontario.ca
 
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I thought that the advertising they were including with the Regs was supposed to help pay for it? Are things at the MNR getting this bad?

Man, the times they are a changing.
 
Rather ironic that Shooters Choice posted a demand for paper copies of the regs on a Facebook page! I think paperless is a step in the right direction. The MNR only recently put the big game harvest surveys online, before that you had to complete a survey card, buy a stamp and mail the thing in to a processing Center. (Which you still have to do for Black Bear). Archaic.

The less money spent on administration, hopefully, can be redirected into game management programs, fish stocking programs and the like which in the long run is more advantageous to hunters.

Just my view, of course.

Ryan
 
I use a computer to read the regulations but still pick up the paper copy for a memento and to have with me when I am in the bush. I find it hard to run an extension cord to my tree stand. All kidding aside some of the guys I hunt with don’t even own a computer, what are they supposed to do?
 
Just sent this

Sir/Madame:

It has come to my attention that the MNR is no longer providing printed copies of the annual hunting regulations.

This is a huge problem for a number of my friends. They are older people who have not embraced the internet or computers. Yet they are still avid hunters who need to know the rules prior to going into the field.

The MNR must be told to print copies of the regulations. Otherwise they are discriminating against many of my fellow hunters.

Please adjust their attitude on this decision.
 
I have been told that the MNR is one of the few Ministries in Ontario that makes a profit, mostly due to sales of fishing and hunting licenses. However the money is transferred from the ministry and spent elsewhere by the government. In other words the money you pay to by a turkey or deer license does not get fully spent on conservation and within the MNR but rather goes to welfare and MPP pensions.

Does anyone know if this is true?


As for the printed regs, perhaps printing them on cheaper news print would make publication less expensive rather then the glossy rags they currently produce.

Dan
 
Money from licence sales is supposed to go straight back into conservation. If that is not the case, we need to raise a stink. Also, I wonder about hunter Ed. classes: participants are always given a copy of the regs as part of the course, so that they become comfortable with the regs and how to use them.
 
Chuckbuster said:
Money from licence sales is supposed to go straight back into conservation. If that is not the case, we need to raise a stink. Also, I wonder about hunter Ed. classes: participants are always given a copy of the regs as part of the course, so that they become comfortable with the regs and how to use them.
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Have fun finding out those facts. I would like to know if license sales are down since the new system was started last year and retailers who sell them are fewer and farther between.
 
Here's a good question. I have been wanting to look up a fishing season, so I seen this thread and it reminded me. You go to the MNR site, and there is a link to click to go to he fishing regulations, next to it in brackets there is a link to click on a link to the regulations in chinese???? No french link, which last time I checked was an official language of Canada. Just English and Chinese.
 
I spoke to a CO at the Crean Hill gunshow today. He didn't know what to say other than the bureaucrats think they will save money this way, and it will be easier. He didn't think it would be easier at all for anybody on the ground, hunters and COs both. He also said they likely will no longer be giving copies of the regs to hunter ed. students either, and further, that the lack of copies of the regs will also apply to the fishing regs as well. He had a few copies of both at the show, but said he really had to beg for them.
 
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