Censorship and Spam lists interfering in our Registered Campaign against the #HST
Mar 6, 2010 Details
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It has been brought to our attention that some Internet Service Providers have listed the term fighthst.com in spam lists and in some cases the emails are not getting to their intended recipients. This may or may not be an intentional act to interfere with our campaign but it is a harmful act nonetheless. The legalities of it will be something for the Courts and Elections BC to determine at a later time. We are not sure how many other combinations of our name have been listed with other Internet Service Providers as Spam but are now on alert and we feel that everyone should be on alert for this type of Censorship as well.
The best way to make sure you are not missing emails about this campaign or about any link your friends may be trying to email to you, is to go to your internet spam settings and make sure that “automatically delete spam” is not selected. You will then receive emails with “potential spam” in the heading and you will then be able to send the email to your Service Provider and let them know that this is not spam and that they should remove the listing. As an added precaution, you should also ask your Internet Service Provider for a complete list of words, phrases and website addresses that they are sniffing for in your private and confidential emails. Remember that nothing on the internet or in email is considered private or confidential anymore.
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Introduction to the Citizen Initiative Petition to repeal the HST
Feb 11, 2010 Details
What is the HST?
The HST is a new federal sales tax created by merging the GST with the PST, to be collected by the federal government and shared with BC.
Why is the HST bad for BC?
•It will add 7% more to the cost of many goods and services that were previously exempt under the PST.
•It will transfer the entire sales tax burden from businesses to consumers.
•It will cost the average household in BC an extra $2,100 per year.
•The HST removes BC’s exclusive Constitutional right to set and collect provincial sales tax in BC.
•The BC Liberals’ promised NOT to implement the HST in the last election.
•BC’s economy is struggling, and an extra tax will hurt citizens and economic recovery.
How can we stop the HST?
•BC is unique in Canada to have a Citizen’s Initiative law that provides for a legally binding petition to be conducted.
Fight HST has been approved by Elections BC to conduct a Citizen’s Initiative petition to repeal the HST.
•The Citizen’s Initiative petition requires the signatures of 10% of registered voters in every one of BC’s 85 Electoral Districts to be successful.
•If the Initiative petition is successful, the BC Government must submit a draft Bill to the Legislature for a vote, or conduct a province wide referendum (Initiative Vote) on the question.
What is the petition called?
The Fight HST Citizen Initiative is titled:
An initiative to end the harmonized sales tax (HST)
What does the petition mean? Read the rest of this entry »
HST Extinguishment Act for the Citizen’s Initiative against the #HST in BC
Dec 10, 2009 Details
Title:
HST Extinguishment Act
Preamble:
Whereas a Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) combining the Provincial Sales Tax (PST) with the federal
Goods and Services Tax (GST) as contemplated by the Governments of British Columbia and Canada
contravenes Section 92, Article 2, of the Constitution Act 1867, which states:
92. In each Province the Legislature may exclusively make Laws in relation to Matters coming within the
Classes of Subjects next hereinafter enumerated; that is to say,
2. Direct Taxation within the Province in order to the raising of a Revenue for Provincial Purposes.
And whereas the people of British Columbia, as expressed in the Citizen Initiative Petition against the
Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) in British Columbia, wish to extinguish the tax, therefore;
Part I
(1) The HST is extinguished in British Columbia.
(2) Any Agreement(s) between The Government of British Columbia and The Government of
Canada establishing an HST in British Columbia are hereby extinguished and of no force or effect
whatsoever.
(3) Any Legislation by The Government of British Columbia establishing an HST is hereby
extinguished and of no force or effect whatsoever.
(4) Any Legislation by The Government of Canada establishing an HST in British Columbia is of
no force or affect in British Columbia whatsoever.
Part II
(1) A Provincial Sales Tax (PST) of 7% with the same applications and exemptions as at June
30th 2010 shall be the only sales tax in British Columbia for the raising of a Revenue for Provincial
Purposes.
Part III
(1) This Act shall be effective as of June 30th 2010.
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SAMPLE LETTER TO YOUR MP REGARDING BC HST
Nov 16, 2009 Details
Below I have included the text of a letter to your MP. Simply copy and paste into your word processor and finish the details or make your own modifications, then print and mail it to your MP at the address provided.
[Date]
[Your MP's Name: If a Minister preceded with Hon.]
[If Minister insert title here]
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario K1A OA6
RE: BC HST Enabling Legislation.
Dear [MP's title, if Minister, and Name},
I am writing you to oppose the implementation of a Harmonized Sales Tax in the province of British Columbia.
Poll’s in British Columbia show that over 85% of citizen here are opposed to this tax. This opposition represents an overwhelming majority in every riding. The results of the recent by-election in New Westminster-Coquitlam demonstrates that any BC politician that supports the HST will face the wrath of the voters at election time.
As a voter in [ constituency], I will be casting my ballot in the next federal election only for candidates that oppose the implementation of the HST in BC, regardless of political party. If you wish to have my support, and the support of thousands of other constituents in this riding, I strongly urge you to vote against the implementation of the HST.
I hope that you will heed the majority of your constituents wishes and that you will act in accordance with Canadian democratic principles and political accountability with regard to the HST.
I strongly oppose this tax on the basis that the BC Liberals have no mandate to create such a tax, it is being unfairly implemented in BC, and will place too great a burden on consumers struggling to cope with a recession.
Once again, I urge you to please vote according to the majority of your constituent’s wishes against the HST.
Sincerely,
Name
Address
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SAMPLE LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER REGARDING BC HST
Nov 15, 2009 Details
Below I have included the text of a letter to your Prime Minister. Simply copy and paste into your word processor and finish the details or make your own modifications, then print and mail it to your Prime Minister at the address provided.
[Date]
The Right Honourable Stephen Harper
Prime Minister of Canada
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario K1A OA6
RE: BC HST Enabling Legislation.
Dear Prime Minister Harper,
I am writing you to oppose the implementation of a Harmonized Sales Tax in the province of British Columbia.
Poll’s in British Columbia show that over 85% of citizen here are opposed to this tax. The results of the recent by-election in New Westminster-Coquitlam demonstrates that any BC politician that supports the HST will face the wrath of the voters on this issue.
You have stated that it is up to the provinces whether they wish to accept the HST or not. For this reason, I request that you allow your caucus a free vote the HST enabling legislation in BC when it is introduced in Parliament.
On many occasions, you have spoken publicly in support of allowing Members of Parliament greater freedom in representing their constituent’s interests. I hope that you will act in accordance with your stated beliefs and convictions regarding greater democracy and political accountability with regard to the HST.
I strongly oppose this tax on the basis that the BC Liberals have no mandate to create such a tax, it is being unfairly implemented in BC, and will place too great a burden on consumers struggling to cope with a recession.
Once again, I urge you to please allow your MP’s in British Columbia to vote according to their constituent’s wishes on the HST.
Sincerely,
Name
Address
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Big Business wins and you lose with HST
Sep 9, 2009 Details
Alcan Aluminum alone stands to gain many tens of millions of dollars when they proceed with their already announced Aluminum smelter expansion in Kitimat. They like every other big Company will get the taxes they pay refunded from you the consumer. Alcan, like so many other big public companies, has most of its shareholders in the U.S.A., Europe and Asia – they’ll all be grateful to you for your generosity. The government argues that they need this to compete, I don’t believe for one minute that the big oil and natural gas companies nor the coal companies or the mining operations and Forestry companies will pack up and leave for Ontario or Nova Scotia if they don’t get their taxes refunded.
Even smaller companies will benefit from the tax refunds but they will lose sales because the consumer will have much less money to spend. Losing sales means lay-offs and loss of jobs and this will be particularly evident in the restaurant and tourism related businesses. Mr. Campbell says we need this to compete with Ontario, we never worried about Ontario before, maybe we should be worried about Alberta where they have no provincial sales tax and will not have an HST. Ontario’s economy is very different from ours, we don’t make cars and the likes but it makes a good story.
Why is the Federal Government so anxious that they will pay us $ 1.6 billion? The GST was supposed to be removed completely at some time in the future, it will be removed as a GST when it gets replaced with the HST but as important to the Federal Government is the fact that they too will make much more money. Today any business or individual doing less than $30,000 per year does not have to be a GST registrant and therefore need not charge the GST, this is costing the Federal Government many billions of dollars. With HST everyone will need to charge HST, no exceptions.
The thing they still don’t seem to realize is that this will create an enormous underground economy and not only will they lose the HST in an underground economy but they’ll also lose the income tax because the “undergrounder” will not report the income.
How can we justify taking an extra 2 billion dollars out of the economy during a time of recession when we should leave as much money as possible with the consumer to spend and keep business thriving?
How can we justify taking 2 billion dollars from the person packing the lunch-bucket or the Senior or others on low or fixed incomes, not to fund healthcare or other government programs but to refund taxes to business, especially big business?
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