Night hunting has no place in the modern world
Night hunting is an incredibly dangerous practice involving high-powered rifles capable of killing over a distance measured in kilometres. People have been killed as a result of this reckless activity and livestock slaughtered. It’s also responsible for an alarming decline in moose in Manitoba. It should not be allowed under any circumstances.
The Manitoba government has been under considerable pressure to ban night hunting. Instead, it has decided to take the easy way out and limit it.
The obvious question is: Why would a responsible government not immediately issue a total ban on something that’s so explicitly dangerous, as well as totally unnecessary?
The related question is: Why would any responsible Indigenous leaders insist on a practice that has already claimed the lives of Indigenous people and will certainly claim more lives unless it is totally banned?