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Old 07-24-2014, 06:59 AM
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Originally Posted by elkhunter11 View Post
Many people that work in Alberta that purchase resident tags, don't even have an Alberta drivers license. Many of them just work here, and their principal residence is in another province, but because our regulations are so lax, they just provide an Alberta address, and purchase resident tags. If you lived and worked in Fort McMurray, you would realize just how many people are doing this.
I did live and work in Ft Mac for 7 years, I could count the number of guys on one hand that hunted virtually everyone went home to the East Coast on their days off. I would bet if you tightened up the system 100% it would not reduce the number of "resident" hunters by much. Like you said many keep a NFLD drivers licence but almost all of them pay Alberta Income tax and save themselves 20%. For the ones that do buy a resident licence illigitimatly I would assume they are mainly hunting around the northern zones around Ft Mac anyway which really has no impact on the majority of hunters in the province. Should they be doing it absolutly not but I dot ink is the answer to significantly reducing draw times
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