The 2015 Ontario Fishing Regulations have been released by the MNR

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I think the privacy concerns would be like making sure MNR staff and license vendors don't accidentally get access to your health records? I know health card info is particularly strictly guarded.

(01-10-2015 07:54 AM)OldTimer Wrote:  Plus - sending jobs south of the border should upset all.

Should, sure. But this is work that was otherwise being done in-house by the MNR. And reducing provincial staff seems to be an easy political winner and has been government policy for some time. Now I know in this case it's work that needs to be done either way and is just being outsourced, but that's the story with government downsizing most of the time anyway... reduce staff on paper, spend the same amount of money getting the work done by someone else (or by the same laid-off workers coming back as contractors), brag about efficiencies... people love to hear about the government cutting staff but staff cuts without first reducing the workload are generally a hoax. Not saying there aren't more efficient ways to do some things, but such ways don't magically get developed and implemented when you cut staff to meet some target.

Sorry, I know we're not here to talk politics.