The government of British Columbia is facing renewed criticism over a proposed extension of its controversial wolf culling program. This decade-long program, which has cost taxpayers $13 million, was mobilized in response to dwindling caribou populations across the province.
While the government emphasizes the effects of predators on caribou, they gloss over the impact of habitat destruction by humans. The scapegoating of wolves is not new, but a repackaging of a centuries-long settler colonial view of the wolf as a monster — a narrative largely inspired by European folklore.
