explain to me why ohep cost 300 bucks?

[mark270wsm]

I just want to chime in on this. My son just took the course for his minors POL. $50 would have worked out to less than $4.00/hr for the examiner to teach and examine. That does not include the cost of the book, any visual aids, rental of the hall etc. Your $50.00 would work out to a monetary loss for the examiner. Give your head a shake buddy. I have no problem with the costs involved. It was money well spent IMO

I am shaking my head profusly for two reasons 1. your math skills are amazing! 2. Your comment on them only making 4 dollars a hour, you forgot to include the other 20,30 students 4 dollars a hour in your conversation. I sure hope your other half pays the bills and checks your pay check. Its not the point of the money its the whole issue of why we can not do this online and do it cheaper, I suppose you like to pay high taxes for nothing, These other provinces and states have been doing it for years. Why do we allow it to happen ?

[topher]

would you have complained if you payed 1500 and the guy down the street got the same thing for 300?...

Would be his fault for not doing his homework..

[Bluebulldog]

would you have complained if you payed 1500 and the guy down the street got the same thing for 300?...

Poor analogy.

The guy down the street is paying the same as everyone else. The guy in another province may be paying something different...

The big picture is what needs to be put in perspective, not what one little fee covers. What do tags cost? How many programs do they run? Do you have as many hunting opportunities in New Brunswick? No, you don't. Same story in some other provinces. I've used NB as the example, since it was the example used by the OP.

How a province manages it's wildlife, and the costs associated with it, are a provincial matter. Using the example marl270wsm used as New Brunswick.....government subsidized, and they have nowhere near the area of management like Ontario does. Or do you ever flip the road map over, and see that Northern ON is bigger in area than the South?

[M_P]

not sure how many?.... Does this have anything to do with it being a on-line course?... Or how much they paid for it?... Anyhow IMO that this can and will eventually come to ontario.... IMHO!...

Sure does. With an online course there is no guarantee that you have had the mandatory hours of instruction and I don't feel that you would get the same level of education.

[grizzlygreig]

[QUOTE=Bluebulldog;762216]Poor analogy.

The guy down the street is paying the same as everyone else. The guy in another province may be paying something different...

The big picture is what needs to be put in perspective, not what one little fee covers.
the big picture is that the same safety and hunting course has the same info as we get... Not talking tags or where you go hunting!... So you are saying a N.B safety course is not as good as ours?... Likewise with the hunting course?
Why should we pay more for the same thing?... Or at least an option to do it the same as other parts of Canada?.. Should be able to choose if we want to take it from an instructor or like other provinces on-line... If all the instructors said next week we will be all charging 1000 a head without an option to do it cheaper would that still be cool with you?

[grizzlygreig]

Sure does. With an online course there is no guarantee that you have had the mandatory hours of instruction and I don't feel that you would get the same level of education.

a mandatory test with a examiner giving it... They pass or they don't.... Being in a class doesn't mean you are learning it..the test is what it's all boils down too.

[grizzlygreig]

Would be his fault for not doing his homework..

the op did his homework and found that in ontario you have no other options but to be at the mercy of what the instructors want to charge...

[mark270wsm]

Sure does. With an online course there is no guarantee that you have had the mandatory hours of instruction and I don't feel that you would get the same level of education.

Once again i am shaking my head..... like i said my daughter took the course years ago and there was more story telling just like in the turkey course then there was Guaranteed mandatory hours of instruction . Some of you people need to step outside and really see what is going on

[mark270wsm]

the op did his homework and found that in ontario you have no other options but to be at the mercy of what the instructors want to charge...

its not the instructors that tell you what to charge there is a laid out minimum and a maximum

[grizzlygreig]

And I already have my license... No skin off my ... But for the future hunters I think a alternative to having to pay top dollar in ontario over other options is wrong... It's like the instructors are cornering the market so to speak...