284 CONSERVATION OF CANADIAN WILD LIFE 
cil, and not by the provincial legislature. A similar policy 
is followed in the case of the legislation enacted by the Do- 
minion Government for the protection of migratory birds 
and of game in the Northwest Territories. The method of 
fixing open seasons, etc., by Order in Council, has great ad- 
vantages over the method generally in vogue of accomplish- 
ing this by amendments to the Game Act. Such amend- 
ments can only be made when the legislature is in session, 
and not infrequently it is of great importance to make a 
change in an open season without the delay necessitated by 
a postponement of such action until the legislature meets. 
The claim sometimes made that delegation of these powers 
to the Lieutenant-Governor in Council is likely to be abused 
has not been borne out in practice; on the contrary, it has 
been found that the needs of the situations that arise from 
time to time in wild-life protection can be more opportunely 
met by such a policy, which is to be strongly recommended 
on that account. 
A number of important restrictions have recently been 
placed on the killing of big game. The bag limit on moose 
has been reduced from two to one, on caribou from three to 
two, and on mountain goat from three to two. These were 
necessary and wise reductions and, with the other restric- 
tions on big-game hunting that have been made, they un- 
doubtedly will be a means of conserving some of our finest 
big game, for which the province is justly famous. In fact, 
there is no better big-game region on the North American 
continent than the Cassiar region of British Columbia. 
In 1918, for the first time, a close season was established 
on bear, which now may be killed only from October 1 to 
June 30. It would be very desirable to proceed further 
and amend the Game Act for the purpose of establishing a 
bag limit on grizzly bears. Grizzlies are not so abundant 
now as to permit their unlimited destruction. 
The sale of all protected game is advisedly prohibited 
