In a cost cutting move, Ontario will no longer mail renewal notices for Outdoor Cards. Hunters & fishermen will have to check the expiry date and remember to renew on time. The expiry year is to the right of the number and most expire on December 31 of that year.
Ontario no longer mailing Outdoor Card renewal notices
- Thread starter Forcedair
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shoot_to_kill
CGN Regular
- Location
- Luskville quebec
I just renewed mine on the 3rd on January. I also found it strange that I didn't get a renewal in the mail. Guess that explains it.
magnummike
Member
- Location
- Sudbury, Ontario
Apparently we don't pay enough for our licences I guess.......Man did we ever get screwed by the O.F.A.H......I remember when the O.F.A.H.....(MNR PUPPETS)....said ohhh...plastic card licences will be great...you'll just swipe them like a VISA and away you go....it'll be faster and cheaper!!!!!
.....now we have to buy a useless plastic card...+ our licence + carry an additional paper tag........AND NOW they won't send us a reminder.....Bunch of CROOKS...!!!
.....now we have to buy a useless plastic card...+ our licence + carry an additional paper tag........AND NOW they won't send us a reminder.....Bunch of CROOKS...!!!
Avalonthas
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Toronto ON
The least they could do is an email reminder. Its free and tree friendly :O
This was my first thought when I read this post.
You clearly do not partake of the fountain of bureaucracy. There needs to be a team of people to draft the email, a team of people to identify who to email it to, someone to verify when the email needs to be sent, someone to review the draft and approve it, a department manager for each of those people, shift supervisors, and liaisons to other departments.
Got it, thanks, man my wife must have done this for me every other time, I just realized how much all that crap costs, AND they charge us tax on the "right" or "privilege" to hunt and fish, WTF, its not a product, its permission for F sakes LOL.
trubluscrew
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- SW Ontario
I guess I don't see what the big deal is here.If it's like the Alberta WIN card, you go to buy a license and the win is expired, you just pay for another one. No reminder necessary.
Grizz
I can see bad things happening to me. I buy the 3 year small game and 3 year sport fishing when I renew my card. So in my mind, I have my card, I'm licensed and legal. Until I go out the first of January (ice fishing or coyote hunting) and my card is expired.
The problem doesn't lie in the system, but in myself, but it would be nice to be given a reminder of pending expiry.
I guess I don't see what the big deal is here.
Grizz
The big deal is you cant just walk in and buy one. That would be too simple. You have to buy it online or at a service ontario kisok then wait for them to mail it to you.
That's changed. I bought a temporary outdoors card at Canadian Tire this year, they print off a license on plastic paper and you get the permanent one in the mail a month later.
They have a special terminal connected to MNR for renewals and licensing.
I saw that 'special terminal' in Parry Sound when I was buying my deer license this past fall. The one positive is that they'll never run out of 'tags'. They can print unlimited numbers.
And I can see government wanting to save money but what is more disconcerting is how the theme of less dollars and less relevance the Ministry of No Results portfolio is becoming.
