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Anti-HST recall petition against B.C. Liberal MLA Terry Lake meets failure

by Stephen Hui on April 5th, 2011 at 3:22 PM
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      The petition campaign against Terry Lake, the B.C. Liberal MLA for Kamloops-North Thompson, has become the latest anti-HST recall effort to fail, according to Elections B.C.

      “Under the Recall and Initiative Act, the proponent was required to submit the petition by 4:30 p.m. on Monday, April 4, 2011. The petition was not submitted. As the requirements of the Act have not been met, the petition is unsuccessful," acting chief electoral officer Craig James said in a news release today (April 5).

      The petition would have needed 15,299 valid signatures to be successful.

      The B.C. Liberal government plans to hold a mail-in referendum on the harmonized sales tax on June 24.

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      Comments

      2 Comments

      Second Nation

      Apr 6, 2011 at 8:47am

      Ask yourself this: if any tax was put to a popular vote would it pass?

      If the answer is "no" then how are we to fund social spending (education, police, roads, environmental protection, transit...).

      Bruno15

      Apr 6, 2011 at 1:31pm

      Have Zalm and Delaney fallen from the face of the earth? Can we not get some comment from these two scholars on what these persistent recall failures mean?

      Good thing for the NDP that Carole James had the good sense to stay out of this argument ... unlike her disastrous foray when getting sucked into the carbon tax debate.