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Bill: CPL Hunting Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Conservative Liberal Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: January 2109
Description[?]:
| We propose the deregulation of hunting and fising activities. Not only is it costly and expensive to maintain regulations, it has also failed to prevent illegal poaching. There has been an explosion in the fox population, therefore this bill will give farmers a free hand in the fight against vermin. This will not effect endangered species becuase there is currently a law banning the hunting of endangered species. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government regulation of hunting.
Old value:: Hunting and fishing activities are restricted to designated areas and periods.
Current: The matters of hunting and fishing are handled by local governments.
Proposed: Hunting and fishing is not regulated.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:50:21, September 04, 2005 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the CPL Hunting Bill |
| Message | With the minimal safeguard that endangered species are exempt from hunting, the AAP is happy to support this bill. |
| Date | 23:42:40, September 04, 2005 CET | From | Liberal Party for Equality | To | Debating the CPL Hunting Bill |
| Message | Even if there has been an explosion in fox populations that is no reason to deregulate fishing - fish stocks are already falling despite our current position and making the laws freer could mean that fish stocks fall below the sustainable before overfishing can be prevented. A much better way to combat the problem would be to make 'designated areas and periods' everywhere all the time for foxes and maintain control over other areas of hunting. Illegal poaching has nothing to do with it, as that is to do with who owns the land. |
| Date | 10:25:35, September 05, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Liberal Party | To | Debating the CPL Hunting Bill |
| Message | Currently hunting activities are restricted to designated areas and periods. Therefore poaching is no longer about land ownership, it is also about those individuals, who hunt outside the designated areas and periods, which are unnecessary in our opinion. |
| Date | 10:33:32, September 06, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Liberal Party | To | Debating the CPL Hunting Bill |
| Message | Seeing no further debate,we shall push forwards with the vote. |
| Date | 00:46:53, September 07, 2005 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the CPL Hunting Bill |
| Message | The AAP is guided by the LPE wisdom in this - explosions in fox populations do not explain unlimited fishing, or deer-hunting. Likatonians have a responsibility to steward Likatonian resources. |
| Date | 17:44:47, September 07, 2005 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the CPL Hunting Bill |
| Message | We will always support increasing the freedoms of our people to decide for themselves what is appropiate behavior. |
| Date | 15:06:33, September 09, 2005 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the CPL Hunting Bill |
| Message | Response to the RLP: The AAP agrees with you that freedoms are essential to our society... but we find ourselves wondering if we should have the individual 'right' to cause a sovereign species to become extinct? If we leave THAT choice to each individual, and our collective decision causes extinction, have we not been poor stewards? |
| Date | 15:16:20, September 09, 2005 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the CPL Hunting Bill |
| Message | To the honorable member of the AAP: I quite agree, which is why I would not support this bill if it allowed hunting of endanghered species. As that safeguard is in place, I see no immediate problems. |
| Date | 17:52:21, September 09, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Liberal Party | To | Debating the CPL Hunting Bill |
| Message | We shall now put this to vote. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 43 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 138 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 26 |
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