HighnDry wrote on Feb 12^th, 2020 at 4:28am:

That says a lot. I've always wondered why there weren't better roads for example built around parks such as WCPP and Wabakimi. It would appear because the powers-at-be didn't desire them to be built perhaps. Roads would create better access and more visitors.

   The policial power in Canada is centered as here in the heavily populated urban areas. The difference between them and us is that with our much larger population our rural population still has a lot of pull.

  In Canada that is not true at all.
  A dozen years or so ago the province of Ontario BANNED Black Bear hunting. There was NO scientific reason for this. In fact, the black bear population was climbing. Government biologists said they NEEDED to keep the population in check. To outfitters that run a business that caters to hunters in the season and the local businesses that get more business, it was a devastating blow.

  There was another element and that was the SAFETY of the rural folks. The bears lost their fear of humans. They were coming into town, raiding the dumpsters and breaking into homes. Towns, where the kids had to wait for the bus in the dark, started having ARMED adults watching over them.

  So HOW did the powers that be in Ontario decide this ban was NEEDED?

  Well, the biggest city in Ontario is Toronto which is the Canadian version of San Francisco in its political/social views.

  It is ALSO home to the largest branch of PETA in Canada. They don't want ANYONE hunting/fishing, eating meat, etc.  Someone sent them a video of POACHERS shooting a mother bear/cubs out a tree to harvest the organs for folk medicine cures.

  Well, they got a petition drive going that showcased how cruel HUNTING was and put it on a ballot initiative. They used that video to make people that know NOTHING about hunting/wilderness or RURAL life vote to ban bear hunting.

The rural people fought it tooth and nail but it passed.

Many of the same-minded folks set Park policies.