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Parks Canada to spend $12M on B.C. deer cull, while Canadian hunters say they'd do it for free

A total of 84 deer were killed during last year's cull in the beginning of December

Author of the article:Bryan Passifiume
Published May 28, 2024 • Last updated 19 hours ago • 4 minute read


OTTAWA — Employing foreign sharpshooters in helicopters to cull deer inhabiting a small coastal B.C. island could cost taxpayers over $12 million, suggest newly released government documents.

According to figures unearthed by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation via an access-to-information act, Parks Canada has earmarked $12 million to fund a multi-phase “Fur to Forest” program, which employs non-Canadian helicopter-mounted sharpshooters to eradicate an invasive herd of European fallow deer from Sidney Island — a nine-square-kilometre tract of land off the coast of Vancouver Island.


That’s nearly double the $6 million the program was initially forecast to cost.

“It’s appalling for Parks Canada to be blowing $12 million on a project that local hunters have been doing for a decade for free,” the federation’s Carson Binda told reporters in Victoria recently.

The program sparked controversy upon its launch in December, particularly in light of the fact local efforts by private hunters have kept the animals’ numbers in check.

Locals told reporters last year those efforts resulted in the removal of nearly 2,000 deer, and at no cost to taxpayers.


A total of 84 deer were killed during last year’s cull between Dec. 1 and 11.

As well, Parks Canada confirmed a little under a quarter of the culled animals weren’t actually invasive deer, but species native to Sidney Island.

European fallow deer were introduced to the island as hunting game over 100 years ago, and their presence is harming indigenous wildlife and plants.

Only government experts can shoot well enough. /s/

They do not want citizen's to own firearms.

Letting them cull would be a reason.

Surprise surprise, the crown doesn’t want subjects killing the queens royal animals, but the crown will offer maid To the homeless or handicap because they are a burden to the crown

and they will use again ar15 which are prohibitied for us to use even just at the range ...

One day hopefully the citizens will wake up

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Originally posted by M.Shy:
One day hopefully the citizens will wake up

you mean getting rid of monarchy and being a republic ... we got the option in the past and many were too many fond of the red coats ...