DarkWing,
According to Justice Canada's Firearms Centre web site,
www.canadianfirearms.com/, you may be missing some information on your application (a separate window appears with this warning after you log on to their site), or they may not have gotten around to it yet. There was a tremendous rush of applications in December that is now a very large backlog. Telephone 1-800-941-1991 or e-mail
canadian.firearms@justice.gc.ca to see what can be done. Let them know your concern about the spring bear hunt. Keep the pressure on! They should at least issue you a temporary, and failing that pack the correspondence with you in the field with your gun. I doubt anyone will check (firearms licences should be a low priority to officers) but of course, you never know.
Don Meredith, freelance