Parks Canada is finding new ways to waste our money, this time paying a New Zealand-based company nearly $6M to go on the hunt of a lifetime off the coast of BC.
The Sitka Blacktail deer were introduced to Haida Gwaii for hunting in 1898 and took the place over. With no natural predators, the little ruminants overpopulated and started to destroy the ecosystem.
Much of Haida Gwaii is a national preserve, which means the solution to the infestation of destructive deer was left up to the big thinkers in Environment Minister Catherine McKenna's Ministry.
Parks Canada hired five New Zealanders who specialize in deer eradication to shoot the deer from low-flying helicopters.
The Kiwis also used tracking dogs to hunt the deer on the island and boats to shoot them from the shoreline.
The cost of all this pest control is $5.7M, courtesy of the Canadian taxpayer.
These lucky Kiwis are getting a sweet heli-hunt, all the deer they can shoot and are getting paid for it too, when the rest of us would pay handsomely out-of-pocket for such an adventure.
So, I have a better idea. Let Canadian hunters do this.
Watch as I show you how it can be done, and to learn about the other time Canadian hunters controlled an invasive species with very little government intervention, for less money.
Rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat. Another fine example of our tax dollars at work.
Pause video at 59 seconds and you will get confirmation
I did a quick search and found all these links, is your internet not working properly?
http://www.canada.com/news/local+news/ottawa+spends+million+deer+eradication+haida+gwaii+featuring/17276828/story.html
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/ottawa-spends-dollar57-million-on-deer-eradication-in-haida-gwaii-featuring-new-zealand-sharpshooters/ar-AAvKCUc
http://novascotiahunting.com/forums/index.php?/topic/62802-ottawa-spends-57-million-on-deer-eradication-in-haida-gwaii/
http://ridgedale.net/news/ottawa-spends-5.7-million-on-deer-eradication-in-haida-gwaii
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff9aEqHQ00U
http://canada.trendolizer.com/2018/04/ottawa-spends-57-million-on-deer-eradication-in-haida-gwaii-featuring-new-zealand-sharpshooters.html
If hunting by helicopter by highly trained personnel is okey dokey, why didn’t the government ask our military to handle the cull?! No additional funding needed for labour, our military receive a paycheck…so, the government would have to pay for costs associated with flying a chopper and bullets vs spending almost 6 million dollars to have Kiwi contractors take care of this. It doesn’t make sense at all.
This describes in good detail what is involved in shooting nusance deer in populated areas. For the CLOSE RANGE headshot no farther than 50 yards and using Barnes “Varmint Grenade” frangible bullets which will group in an area about the distance between the deers eyes ASSUMING YOU ARE SHOOTING WITH A RIFLE ON A REST OR BIPOD…some expert shots (like me for instance) …could get the gun steady enough using a rigid shooting jacket and tight armsling from kneeling position…..I wouldn’t dream of trying it from a helicopter.
If tags were offered Canadian hunters would have no problem taking care of this and it would not cost 6 million to do it.
A draw system like the one currently in use. The non resident aliens pay an extra premium for these hunts. The income could have been used to support wild life similar to Ducks unlimited.
This sort of thing has happened before I recall a special grizzly hunt open for only two days and no one new about it. Just the government elites went on the hunt.
In the end this is simply another prime example of an elite making decisions with no knowledge of the realities of life.
Canadians need to get used to this – it will only get worse.
I wonder who makes these decisions and I wonder who is actually deciding that only these folks can do this and more and more and more.
If you look deep enough there will be some cash exchanging hands.
Please note the tongue in cheek.
Sheila is bang on, they’re using varmint rifles, they work as long as they’re close and extremely accurate for an instant kill. Not good from a helicopter on a moving target
Federals have put Canada up for sale and in this case they’re also providing the buyer with the money to harvest our natural resource. All this is going on while natives can take whatever animal & wherever they want, there’re no restrictions like age, sex, limit or season for them. They hunt during day & night with strong hunting lights, nobody dare to stop them.
There’s no end to political imbecility in Canada.
We all know that the Liberals need to be culled as they are out of control and continually spouting rubbish and so infecting the Canadians that don’t pay attention and end up voting for them.
Cull them I say, eradicate the bunch, clean up Ottawa – mind you the Parliament buildings will have to be cleansed with fire to remove the Liberal stink – but so be it.