Game management is demonstrably incorrect, based on statements from the Ministry of Natural Resources spokesperson, who continues to use false statements to perpetuate the lies that keep votes for all political parties. "Bears are the second slowest reproducing land mammals" is a direct quote from their spokesperson. This is one of those statements that make an impact on the misinformed. The fact is Grizzly bears are the second slowest reproducing land mammals. Black bears are much more adaptable, and are the only type of bear in Ontario. They reproduce at double the rate of grizzly bears. This is the misinformation that has to be fought, as well as misinformation about hunting practices or the reason for those hunting practices. Fact based arguments do not work, so it's time to put a human element into our cause. Humans that are affected by the economic loss, and humans that are affected by the increased amount of bear-human encounters. That's what we are attempting to do, and we are hoping to get the word out. There's at least 36,000 extra bears in Ontario's bear population today from our previous stable population, and that's not good for both humans and bears.

I would believe it was an accidental error if not for a lot of other misinformation being passed along from the MNR spokesperson. Statements like the bear population has not increased since 1999 (75,000-100,000 bears in Ontario is still used as the number). I took the numbers from studies on bears and doing the math on it, it shows that there should be at least 35,000 additional bears added to the population. Also, statements about bear-human encounters not being related to population or cancellation of the spring hunt, when following the spring hunt cancellation the numbers increased 500-600%, while Manitoba kept it's spring bear hunt based on the recommendation of it's own biologists, and they did not see the same increase, theirs has remained consistent.