That is likely the same Regional officer that our  club trail boss met at a sideroad crossing a couple of winters ago. He said he grew up with sleds and wanted to help with the no permit problem.  We need more like him/them.

I was spot checked checked by a Waterloo regional police officer and turns out we went to high school together, we got chatting and he said he always is checking for permits and charging anyone with trespassing who didn’t have one plus he was looking for valid license stickers, maybe he knew more cause he grew in in the culture, kinda surprised OPP officer wouldn’t know this   

If only it were that easy. I am on the DuYa board and we were made aware of the financial issues and impending changes at our last club meeting of this past sled season. Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago and we are told by district 7 that we had to reduce the amount of trails in the district by a set percentage. Don’t think I can disclose that number. Basically the district said “get on board and help, or the OFSC will simply close the trails at their discretion to meet their mandate of reduction. We certainly don’t run our club. We just scurry around to meet their changing annual demands set out by the federation. The province needs to get involved in this, or this is the beginning of the end.

Look what happened last year with municipalities signing the LOA’s once the crap hit the fan with tourism, the dollars from it, and by not signing, what that would do to local economies. Signed…..   trail retraction in my view is NOT an option and every club need to simply say no, hands off, we run our club.  

There is greater impact in numbers - what do you think a MP, MPP or regional counsellor does not want the most - negative remarks towards them or their riding when it becomes politically messy. A small group of people from the OFSC office is not going to get the traction it needs - plain and simple. A signed petition is not doing anything either.   Agreed with all, people were a sleep at the wheel in this, if not, the optics sure look that way. Transparency is key and the OFSC has not been - when questions are asked, rather than an informed answer, you get, "go to a club" or "join a club" and all your answers will be provided, maybe I am wrong, but there are people here that fall into this category of being part of a club and they do not seem to have the answers either or there are different variations of some answers - so there is a problem here that needs to be addressed and should have years ago.