Your Vancouver Province

Published: Wednesday, July 25, 2007

I am a 25-year-old woman, and the B.C. government will never recruit me as a hunter.

This is not because I play too many video games, it's not because I don't like to go outside and exercise, and it certainly isn't because I am an ignorant city dweller.

I consider myself extremely fortunate to have grown up on Vancouver Island among its bears, deer, cougars, eagles, raccoons and other animals.

I am an avid hiker, trail runner, trail rider, camper and wildlife observer.

I respect wildlife in the same way as I respect my elders, and I certainly would never use a high-powered automatic weapon to violently blow them up.

This leaves me wondering which definition of respect these hunters are using when they describe themselves as "respecting wildlife."

Marley Daviduk, Abbotsford