CHP TALKS

CHP Talks: Kris Sims—Taxpayers Funding Foreign Deer Hunters?

Rod Taylor

My guest this week is Kris Sims, Alberta Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. We discuss the disgusting waste of tax dollars by Parks Canada, which is conducting a $12,000,000 ($12 million!) war against European Fallow deer on Sidney Island in BC. Did you know we’re paying foreign sharpshooters shooting from helicopters to try to eradicate this invasive species? Sidney Island is 3.3 square miles. Kris and I suggest alternative strategies which would not require huge taxpayer subsidies.

 Read about this story here: https://www.taxpayer.com/newsroom/parks-canada-deer-hunt-project-to-cost-taxpayers-12-million?id=&idCat=

 Learn more about the Canadian Taxpayers Federation here: https://www.taxpayer.com