a round tuit

This isn’t about my opinion about HST (harmonized sales tax), one way or the other. But as 80% of BC people object to our provincial government’s upcoming instigation of HST, I’ve been wondering whether everybody knows the extent of what it’s going to take to block this from happening.

The following is from a CBC-online article that explains the steps:
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Citizen’s initiative rules

• If the petition is successful, it could trigger a province-wide referendum on the proposed draft bill it contains.

• The draft bill proposes to reinstate the seven per cent provincial sales tax (PST) as the only sales tax in British Columbia for the purposes of raising provincial revenue.
• For that referendum to pass, more than 50 per cent of registered voters in at least two-thirds of the electoral districts in the province would have to vote in favour of the draft bill.
• If that happened, the government would be required to introduce the draft bill in the legislature for a vote.
• The government also has the option of sending the draft bill directly to the legislature for a vote, without a referendum.
• But if either of those options succeed, there is no requirement for the government, which has a majority in the legislature, to pass the draft bill after it is introduced, and it could die on the floor of the house, just like many private member’s bills.

Read more: aahttp://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/04/06/bc-vancouver-hst-campaign-vander-zalm.html#ixzz0knyMS3HY

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