P.E.I. environment minister reminisces about blowing up beaver dams
Last Updated: Thursday, April 30, 2009 | 4:05 PM AT
CBC News
Opposition questions on Thursday about a growing problem with beavers blocking P.E.I.'s waterways prompted reminiscences from Environment Minister Richard Brown of blowing up beaver dams.
'You're the environment minister now?'— Opposition leader Olive Crane
Brown told the legislature that his department is hiring people who hunt beavers to help clear the streams — then went on to recount how beavers were dealt with in his younger days.
"I had a few summers when I was a young fellow, driving around Prince Edward Island with a couple of cases of dynamite in the car and blowing up dams, and I know the issues out there," he said.
"We had our ticket and we used to spend a couple of days a week going out and blowing up beaver dams."
To which Opposition leader Olive Crane responded: "You're the environment minister now? I wouldn't be telling people that."
According to provincial officials, the hunters now being hired are professionals who remove the beavers in a humane manner.
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