On a larger scale, even better news. Gordon Campbell resigned yesterday
as both Premier of BC and Leader of the Liberal Party.
He won't be completing his 3rd term, supposedly because people have been
unable to focus on all the good things he's done for the economy because
they hate him so much.
It's quite remarkable that just a few days back he'd announced a huge
tax break for everyone, but it was to ease the well-deserved flak from
introducing the HST tax he claimed wasn't even on the radar at last
election time. Voters expressed their desire for an immediate referendum
to the tune of about 17% with signatures, and Campbell said fine, but
not yet--we reserve the right to put it to a vote in the Fall of 2011,
the time of the next election. Meanwhile BC will be banking the tax to
make the books look good. The tax threatens so many small businesses,
but worst still, it impacts seniors, the working classes, and the most
vulnerable. Any way, his tax break announcement was met with an
irritatingly lower approval rating than before, people knowing he'd have
to cut from vital programs to make the tax breaks possible.
He's been one of the luckiest sleazy politicians to date. Privatization
of services, wholesale of old growth forests and waterways, mining,
Olympics expense and fallout, a railroad sale scandal which I think has
more to do with this resignation than is being revealed.
Anything at all good happening since the Mid-terms? What do you foresee?
Natalia
On 11/4/2010 12:25 PM, Ray Harrell wrote:
Hooray for Canada! It's wonderful that all of the news isn't bad.
REH
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Michael probably heard, but Ray, or other non-Canadian residents, may
be not:
Natalia
Council of Canadians celebrates federal government decision on Fish Lake
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OTTAWA, Nov. 2 /CNW/ - The Council of Canadians is celebrating the
federal government decision to reject the Prosperity mine project. The
Environment Canada news release states that "the Prosperity mine
project as proposed, near Williams Lake, cannot be granted federal
authorizations to proceed due to concerns about the significant
adverse environmental effects of the project."
The Council congratulates the Tsilhqot'in whose campaign to protect
the lake drew the attention of groups across the country to this very
important issue.
Environment minister Jim Prentice highlighted the findings of the
federal review panel in his decision. Council of Canadians water
campaigner Meera Karunananthan and BC-Yukon organizer Harjap Grewal
presented to this federal panel on March 22. The Williams Lake chapter
also presented to the panel earlier that day. On September 7, 2010,
the Council of Canadians delivered 15,000 petitions opposing the
Prosperity mine project to Prentice's office on Parliament Hill.
If the project had been approved, it would have resulted in the
destruction of Fish Lake, also known as Teztan Biny. Taseko had
proposed using Fish Lake as a tailings impoundment area for Prosperity
mine, a gold-copper mining project.
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