You have what is believed for instance to be hundreds of thousands of wild pigs in Saskatchewan Alberta and Manitoba. Sows are capable of producing up to 12 pig

You have what is believed for instance to be hundreds of thousands of wild pigs in Saskatchewan Alberta and Manitoba. Sows are capable of producing up to 12 piglets per year. Meanwhile those 3 have a combined population of 7.3M around 18% living in rural areas or about 1.3M. You can already legally own some rifles in Canada and hunt pigs in accordance with the law however you need to kill around 70% of the population each year just to keep the population the same size due to fast breeding and the survivors being about as smart as dogs do learn and become harder to kill. It's not obvious that either gun control nor well earned disdain for the rural population are a meaningful contributor to the problem whatsoever. Nor is it obvious why any sane person who isn't already inclined to join the reserves would do so for the purpose of obtaining essentially a hunting license nor why tossing in rural open carry would improve the bargain. Instead such a license ought to be free since you are in effect doing the government a favor. It seems more likely that people just aren't sufficiently inclined to kill enough of them because its a lot of work that wouldn't be sufficiently rewarded. Establishing a demand for harvesting and marketing them is something you would have to do the ground work on BEFORE people are inclined to put in the effort and furthermore it seems incredibly unlikely that the market should demand enough at a price that would support the amount of harvesting at a high unit cost required to even stabilize the population. I would suggest government pay employees directly to shoot a shit ton of pigs. It is far cheaper than trying to store and process them and avoid incentivizing breeding them by not paying independent agents per kill.