Executive Director Lois Corbett spoke with CBC New Brunswick about how well the provincial government is enforcing the Fish and Wildlife Act.
An investigation by CBC revealed that the The Department of Natural Resources has a 14 per cent conviction rate over the last five years when dealing with major violations of the Fish and Wildlife Act.
The news agency learned that almost half of those violations were dropped and their investigations never completed, qualifying them as “not proceeded” within the department.
Corbett told CBC that the existing system is similar to having a “smoke detector with no batteries.”
“It’s lipstick and rouge,” Corbett said.
“It’s laws in the books that don’t have any implications. Why should people follow the rules if they don’t have consequences?”