OPINION POLL: Which BC MLA should be recalled first?
Jun 27, 2010 Opinion Polls
We have posted a list of BC MLA’s that were at the top of the signature collection numbers list. According to their Ridings, these MLA’s are the worst at their job of representing the people of their BC Riding.
Who do you think should be the first MLA to be recalled? If you have other MLA’s in mind, please leave a comment below with your suggestion and reasons.
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Tags: bc liberals, BC MLA Recall, Colin Hansen, collection numbers, democracy, FightHST, gordon campbell, HST, mla, Recall, signature collection, vanderzalm
New Poll: Should Campbell and/or Hansen resign?
Jun 24, 2010 Opinion Polls
We have now collected more signatures than the BC Liberals received to elect them to their current Dictatorship in 2009. That was the legal signature collection, it’s now time for our first opinion poll to discuss the employment of Gordon Campbell and Colin Hansen as representatives of the people of British Columbia.
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Tags: bc liberals, British Columbia, democracy, dictatorship, gordon campbell, hansen, legal signature, opinion poll, signature collection, signatures
Common Ground Magazine Cover
Feb 6, 2010 Guest Posts
As we get closer to our 3 month long Signature Collection Campaign, I thought I would share this Great magazine cover by Common Ground Magazine (with permission of course). I love the caption: OVERTAXAR from the director of “TITANIC DEBT”
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Tags: bc liberals, collection campaign, common ground magazine, Fight HST, FightHST, gordon campbell, HeiST, Liberals, overtaxar, signature collection, titanic debt
PRESS RELEASE: BC CITIZENS’ INITIATIVE APPLICATION BY FORMER PREMIER BILL VANDER ZALM TO KILL THE HST APPROVED BY ELECTIONS BC FOR APRIL
Feb 5, 2010 Press Release
PRESS RELEASE: BC CITIZENS’ INITIATIVE APPLICATION BY FORMER PREMIER BILL VANDER ZALM
TO KILL THE HST APPROVED BY ELECTIONS BC FOR APRIL
Vancouver, BC – A British Columbia Initiative petition to kill the proposed 12% Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) on virtually all goods and services in BC, has been approved by Elections BC, former Premier, Fight HST leader and petition applicant Bill Vander Zalm announced Thursday.
Fight HST, the group started by Vander Zalm, said the Elections BC approved Citizens’ Initiative can begin signature collection on April 6, 2010.
If implemented on July 1, 2010, the HST announced last year by Premier Gordon Campbell would add an additional 7% tax on everything from restaurant meals, haircuts, bicycles, and gym memberships to golf fees, airline tickets, funeral services, new homes over $525,000 to professional fees like accounting and much more.
Vander Zalm is currently travelling on business in California but issued a statement:
“The citizen’s Initiative petition is our first move and it is the people’s opportunity to tell the governments that we are still a democracy and not totally an elected dictatorship,” Vander Zalm said. “The Initiative is also the people’s opportunity to kill the HST.”
Fight HST spokesman Bill Tieleman said that: “The citizens’ Initiative petition is a legally-binding petition, which if successful will require the government to either conduct a province-wide referendum on the HST or to present an Act to repeal the HST in the legislature.”
Tieleman explained that the Fight HST group must collect the signatures of 10% of registered voters in all 85 BC electoral districts in 90 days to be successful.
“We will have to collect all those signatures between April 6 and July 5. We have over 1,500 volunteers from across the province who have already agreed to canvass for signatures, and we expect that number to increase dramatically as we approach the start date and people see that the HST can indeed be stopped,” he said.
Chris Delaney, Lead Organizer for Fight HST, said that the proposed legislation for the citizens’ Initiative would nullify the HST agreement between the federal government and the province, thereby extinguishing the HST in BC.
“We would return to the Provincial Sales Tax as it was applied before the surprise HST announcement,” said Delaney. “Our legislation would be effective retroactively from June 30, 2010, the day before the proposed implementation of the HST. This means the government will have to refund all extra HST revenues they collect over and above what they would have received under the PST, to British Columbia taxpayers. It’s their money after all,” said Delaney.
Delaney said Fight HST is calling on Premier Campbell to tell British Columbians whether he will abide by the voters wishes and repeal the HST if the petition is successful.
“British Columbians deserve to know if their Premier, the same man who has repeatedly expressed support for grass roots democracy and effective Citizen Initiative legislation, will abide by it when it is applied to his government.”
Tags: airline tickets, bicycles, bill vander zalm, British Columbia, dictatorship, electoral districts, first move, funeral services, golf fees, gym memberships, haircuts, harmonized sales, HST, initiative petition, premier gordon campbell, professional fees, registered voters, restaurant meals, signature collection, vancouver bc
FightHST Video Discussion with Bill Vanderzalm, part 15.
Sep 17, 2009 Video Interview
A discussion with Former Premier Bill Vanderzalm. “Tell us about the options the Government has when the Citizen’s Initiative succeeds”
Tags: BC, bc premier, betrayal, Bill Vandserzalm, British Columbia, broken promise, citizen initiative, FightHST, gordon campbell, HST, HST CON JOB, Liberals, political maneuver, signature collection, Tax Burden, Tax Hike, Video Interview
FightHST Video Discussion with Bill Vanderzalm, part 14.
Sep 16, 2009 Video Interview
A discussion with Former Premier Bill Vanderzalm. “Let’s talk about Business and the HST”
Tags: BC, bc premier, betrayal, Bill Vandserzalm, British Columbia, broken promise, citizen initiative, FightHST, gordon campbell, HST, HST CON JOB, Liberals, political maneuver, signature collection, Tax Burden, Tax Hike, Video Interview
