PRESS RELEASE: After only three weeks HST is worse than anyone could have imagined
Jul 21, 2010 Press Release
AFTER ONLY THREE WEEKS HST IS WORSE THAN ANYONE COULD HAVE IMAGINED
Delta – Less than three weeks after the introduction of the HST in BC, consumers and businesses alike are reporting that the impact of the new tax is much worse than many thought it would be, says former BC Premier Bill Vander Zalm.
We are finding that the government has not been truthful with us about the HST yet again. The new tax actually amounts to more than 12% in some cases, because we have a tax on taxes,” said Vander Zalm, leader of the Fight HST petition to repeal the tax.
Vander Zalm says that anyone who has purchased an item with an eco fee or a deposit fee will notice the HST is applied on top of those other taxes. “The same problem occurs with the Parking Sales Tax – 12% HST is added on the 21% parking tax for a total of 35.2% in tax. It is outrageous!”
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Citizen’s Initiative petition to eliminate the Harmonized Sales Tax is under legal attack
Jul 11, 2010 Letters
Our Fight HST Citizen’s Initiative petition to eliminate the Harmonized Sales Tax is under legal attack by a so called “coalition” of business groups.
We all know it is really the Gordon Campbell-BC Liberals using their corporate friends to try to have our petition thrown out by the court despite 705,643 BC voters signing it.
We are not going to let them!
We have hired noted BC lawyer Joseph Arvay, Q. C. to defend our citizen Initiative petition, and to challenge the legality of the HST in BC.
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Congratulations! You did it!
Jun 14, 2010 Details
Congratulations! We hit our internal 15% mark in every riding with 3 weeks to spare! This is achievement is epic in its implications, and you have all been a part of making history in BC.
There are still thousands of folks wanting to sign the petition and many canvassers wanting to take their signatures during the next two weeks.
June 27th is our last day for collecting signatures, so let’s go get ‘em!
With the resignation of former cabinet minister, Blair Lekstrom, our campaign has just scored its first direct hit. There will be more to come in the weeks and months ahead.
Premier Campbell has announced he is going to begin ‘promoting’ his hated sales tax immediately following our petition. Read the rest of this entry »
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PRESS RELEASE: BC First Nations join Vander Zalm legal challenge to HST
Jun 8, 2010 Press Release
BC First Nations join Vander Zalm legal challenge to HST
Vancouver – The Union of BC Indian Chiefs has joined forces with Bill Vander Zalm in supporting a legal challenge to the HST. On Thursday of last week, the UBCIC passed a motion agreeing to support a challenge to the much hated sales tax, on the grounds that the tax will be applied to aboriginals in BC, and is outside the jurisdiction of both the federal and provincial government.
The motion reads:
“THEREFORE BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the Union of BC Indian Chiefs Council supports the Fight HST campaign in exploring legal options, including a constitutional challenge to the implementation of the HST.”
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PRESS RELEASE: Fight HST Initiative petition breaks 300,000 signatures representing 10% of total registered voters.
May 4, 2010 Press Release
BC Government attempts to intimidate voters backfires as signatures continue to pour in
Delta – The Fight HST citizens Initiative petition to repeal the HST broke the 300,000 signatures mark as of Monday May 3, up an astonishing 155,000 signatures from last week’s total, says Fight HST Lead Organizer, Chris Delaney.
The Initiative, led by former BC Premier Bill Vander Zalm, has now been signed by approximately 10% of the registered voters across BC, Delaney said, with two months left before the July 5 deadline.
But there is still a long way to go, Delaney says, because the 10% total for the Initiative to succeed must be reached in every one of the 85 electoral districts in BC.
Delaney said the sheer size of the number of signatures this early in the petition drive shows that the BC Liberal government’s attempt to discourage and intimidate voters from signing has failed completely.
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PRESS RELEASE: HST not a done deal until British Columbian’s decide, says VanderZalm
May 2, 2010 Press Release
Terminating agreement with Ottawa will not be difficult
Delta – The leader of the Initiative petition to repeal the HST, Bill Vander Zalm, says despite the BC Government’s attempts to sell the HST as a “done deal”, nothing could be further from the truth.
“They said the HST was a done deal when they signed the agreement with Ottawa nine months ago. Then they said it was a done deal in December when Ottawa passed the federal legislation in Parliament. Now, they’re saying it is a done deal with the legislation removing the PST this past week. But what they aren’t telling people is that what can be enacted by government, can be repealed,” Vander Zalm explained.
Vander Zalm says that the BC Liberal strategy has been to spread the passage of the HST out as long as they can to try to head off Fight HST’s attempts to stop it. Vander Zalm says his group anticipated this tactic, and that is why his petition is designed to “repeal” the tax once enacted, rather than trying to prevent it up front.
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