As we've already told Email Extra subscribers in a
bulletin we issued on January 21: Anyone headed into the hunting shows with thoughts toward booking a Canadian hunt should be aware of a January 8 Federal Court ruling in Canada that gives Métis (people of mixed Native-Canadian and European heritage) the same aboriginal subsistence hunting rights as Native Canadians
regardless of where they live. Until now, some provinces have allowed these rights to Métis living on reserves or living a subsistence lifestyle to hunt in their traditional areas, but this ruling gives even urban dwellers the same rights. Since there are, by some estimates, as many as 600,000 people who can claim Métis rights, and since many are hunters, this ruling is likely to have an immediate impact on wildlife populations and long-term implications for the management of some species, at least in some areas......
