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First and foremost, a $4 discount for outfitter permits is a subsidy, plain and simple, paid for by the taxpayers of Ontario. Canada has way too many handouts to special interest groups, and I can't let this get by without objection.

I know Preacher is a Canadian, and I'm assuming from your blood pressure raising response too my comments, you are as well ;)

I know from talking to Q Dave and other Canadians I've met over the years, that those high tax rates you pay and the subsidies/handouts you mention are a source of anger/outrage by many of you.

Many here in the US, can sympathize! I know I do.
I'm guessing that your form of government, like ours will never eliminate them entirely.  I like too see my taxpayer subsidies go too groups that need a little help now and then, pay their taxes, work hard everyday, and contribute more than they take overall.

IF anyone deserves a little help, it's the little guys like the outfitters who are citizens and not the legal/illegal immigrants, many of them who take more than they contribute and plague your social system like they do ours. I know, it's not a PC thing too say out loud, but the figures don't lie :(  That $4 for the outfitters I mentioned works as a multiplier when it's spent in the local economy, a good investment in my book.

I've never had a conversation with a Canadian that when the subject came up, they didn't express anger to how generous your social system is too new immigrants.  

I'm of the opinion we/you should take care of our own, before we take on the plights of others.

My comment about the Native tribes use of live bait has nothing to do with whether it's their treaty rights or what agency handles it.
But if banning live bait, even bait obtained in waters outside the park but connected too it by innumerable small streams and no-name lakes is a biological necessity, then what's the point of it, if the Natives can bring in such bait?

Q-Dave had a leech/minnow supply from a little area behind his camp on Warner Lk. I find it hard too believe that his minnows/leeches were biologically different enough to pose a threat to the Q Eco-system?
Maybe those damn aggressive Ugly American leeches but surely not the local ones, served by the same watershed?

   I know people who don't like the wilderness who consider tax dollars spent on outdoor projects, unfair subsidies, since they don't see the need or use the resource.I started backpacking/canoeing on my own, with minimal if any outfitter contact. I use one now because I'd rather not leave my vehicle un-attended for that long, and frankly, I enjoy the rapport and knowing I've put some of my vacation money into the hands of someone who works as hard for his, as I do mine.