Cormorant doesn’t deserve Ford’s destructive attention

Re Why are cormorants in the Tories’ crosshairs? Column, Dec. 10

I wanted to thank Tom Walkom for his column on the plight of the cormorant and our provincial government’s plan to render this bird extinct through a brutal campaign of hunting where an individual hunter could kill nearly 14,000 birds in a single season. I can’t think of any animal or bird that could survive this kind of wholesale slaughter.

What is so “harmful” about these birds? These black birds poop and eat fish. Are these qualities that deserve a death sentence? Absolutely not!

In these times, when new wildlife species are being rendered extinct every day worldwide, why is this deliberate government policy of killing off another species being promoted and tolerated?

Since coming into office, Doug Ford has created very few beneficial policies for the people of Ontario, but he is certainly fixated on destroying previous positive policies: radically reducing a small, expected increase in social assistance payments; destroying a research project to look at an alternate and possibly a less expensive way of providing social assistance (guaranteed annual income); killing an increase in the minimum wage; etc. He is now turning what appear to be his destructive tendencies toward a harmless and helpless bird.

With his “majority” government, I suppose Mr. Ford can do anything he pleases.

What will be his next target? Susan Fraser, Toronto