5. A person who holds an attestation, hereinafter called a “tracking dog handler”, may carry out a search, at a hunter’s request, using a tracking dog and in possession of a shotgun or rifle, for a moose, white-tailed deer or black bear that is fatally injured as a result of a hunting activity with a view to killing it in order to put an end to its suffering and avoid its flesh going to waste.
2022-014M.O. 2022-014, s. 5.