Saturday, April 11, 2015
Centennial Square
2 - 4 pm
Mayor Lisa Helps has stated that if Oak Bay was successful Victoria would consider a culling program. As expected, the Oak Bay cull of 11 deer was declared a success, by a very jubilant mayor. This means that other municipalities in the Capital Regional District have a green light to conduct mass killings of their own.
For 3 years many of us have used our 3 alloted minutes to speak to municipal councils and the CRD's Planning, Transportation and Protective Services Committee, only to be ignored by these panels as we stood in front of them. Our letters have not been responded to. Calls for scientific research into deer numbers, non-lethal and inexpensive deer/human mitigation and a pilot project for a non-lethal deer population reduction method have been met with silence, or countered with unabashed fear-mongering.
Our urban wildlife belong to us all, not the provincial government. By using our tax dollars to implement a killing program the municipalities are making us all complicit in something that we are vehemently against.
Bring a sign and be heard. Thank you.
Really! You people are going to spend 50k on sterilizing female deer? Why not continue the deer cull, donate the delicious deer meet to the food bank along with the 50K you all were planning on WAISTING on the sterilization of wild animals! Common sense people! Wake up!
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