Actually, it wasn't the new immigrants that caused the blood pressure rise - my experience is that 99%+ of all new immigrants to Canada work their tails off to make a life better than wherever they came from. They get nothing in subsidies, they just pay. As the son of immigrants who arrived in Canada after the war with nothing, I have never forgotten where my head start in life came from.

But I am surprised to see the regs on these boards so unhappy about rules that make catching fish harder. From what I've read on QJ, you guys never have trouble catching lots of fish, and lots of big ones. Shouldn't it be the ones with minimal fishing skills (like me) griping about barbless hooks and worms and similar?