Month: September 2010

Liberals introduce mandatory-census bill

Post author By Susan Paterson
Post date September 30, 2010

The Liberals are trying to resuscitate the governent’s decision on the long form census by introducing a private member’s bill to bring back the mandatory long form census.

You can read the complete Globe and Mail story here.

Interested to see what questions are asked on the long census form? You can take a look at the questions here :

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/imdb-bmdi/instrument/3901_Q2_V3-eng.pdf

Also take a look at types of data that are based on the long form census – available to UBC staff, students and faculty.

Census of Canada – Topic Based Tabulations

News

HST: Recall campaign against MLAs to begin Jan. 1

Post author By Susan Paterson
Post date September 20, 2010

“Recalling any MLAs may prove more difficult than the petition campaign, which required the volunteers to collect signatures from 10 per cent of registered voters in each of the province’s 85 ridings.

While that was hard enough, for the recall campaign the volunteers will have to start from scratch again and collect signatures from 40 per cent of eligible voters in the riding of each MLA they are targeting. ” – CBC News

Read the full story from CBC news here

To find out what is involved in the Recall and Initiative Act, click on this link which will take you to the Act – available through BC Laws .

To read more about Bill Vander Zalm, take a look at Bill Vanderzalm: “for the people”: hindsight – insight – foresight: the autobiography of British Columbia’s 28th Premier available at Koerner Library.

Tags British Columbia, HST

News

Legislative Committee assembles to discuss anti-HST petition

Post author By Susan Paterson
Post date September 8, 2010

Read the CBC article here

The Select Standing Committee on Legislative Initiatives is composed of the following MLAs:

Terry Lake (convener), Liberal, Kamloops-North Thompson

Eric Foster, Liberal, Vernon-Monashee

Dave S. Hayer, Liberal, Surrey-Tynehead

Richard T. Lee, Liberal, Burnaby North

Pat Pimm, Liberal, Peace River North

John Slater, Liberal, Boundary-Similkameen

Katrine Conroy, NDP, Kootenay West

Mike Farnworth, NDP, Port Coquitlam

Rob Fleming, NDP, Victoria-Swan Lake

Jenny Kwan, NDP, Vancouver-Mount Pleasant

The proceedings of the Select Standing Committee on Legislative Initiatives will be streamed live to the Internet.

At 12:45 PM today, a link will appear on this page to the Webcast of the proceedings:

http://www.leg.bc.ca/hansard/webcasts/

In addition, the archive Webcast and transcript of the proceedings will be linked on this page:

http://www.leg.bc.ca/cmt/39thparl/session-2/legis/index.htm

Tags BC History, British Columbia, HST