Our hard earned tax dollars at work

I am a long term firearm owner and have shot competition for many years. I applied for my fire arm licence in October of last year and have , to date not recivied any responce . On phoning and inquiring about my application they responded that there was no record of the application, BS>. we are comming into a new hunting season and I inquired as to the conservations stance on unlicenced hunters, no responce what do we pay our tax dollars for , DAMM I'll be ****ed if they don't get my licence in time and get charged . Any one out there know the stance of the alberta consevation enforcment branch on this issue?