British Columbians Reject HST and a Feudal-type Dictatorship

As in the days of Robin Hood, Stephen Harper, the federal, and provincial governments retaliate (they need their six month long holiday, every six months); by implementing other higher (example-fuel) taxes; which they had promised not to do.

"Will Rogers " I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
Do you have any idea, at all, of what you are talking about- you know, those things that you grew up knowing, those things everybody knows ALL ABOUT; or a least likes to BELIEVE they do.
Stephen Harper got his majority government--but this should not be seen as a Conservative victory; rather that Canadians are completely fed up. Canadians do not want a form of feudalism in which everything is shoved down their throats.They do not want a government that is constantly telling lies and trying to cover up for their mistakes and they do not want the excessive; never ending, taxes,and high prices, that are crippling the economy 
The Conservatives won by default; because--there was very little  choice. 
We still DO NOT HAVE a Canadian Government.





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“The HST vote is just another symptom of political grumpiness,” Mr. Nanos said, citing the election of Toronto’s new conservative mayor Rob Ford, the decimation of the federal Liberals and the Bloc Québécois in the May election, and the current upheaval in Quebec politics as examples of this frustration.


 Bill Vander Zalm, the former Social Credit premier whose Fight HST organization collected more 555,383 signatures to activate the referendum under B.C.’s Recall and Initiative legislation, said “They can’t simply do things because it’s the will of the premier or the party,” he said, noting the government must consult the people.
B.C. Finance Minister Kevin Falcon said B.C. will return to a PST and GST split within 18 months, and he will meet with federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty next month to discuss repayment of $1.6-billion in transitional funding Ottawa paid B.C. to adopt the tax.
“It’s an important lesson for us, and frankly any government, to recognize that if you are undertaking a major public policy change, it is so important to bring the public along at the very beginning of that change,” he said

Pollster Greg Lyle, a former B.C. Liberal strategist who is now managing director at Innovative Research Group, echoed that point, noting there are lessons for other leaders. “Don’t discover a problem in private and then release a tough solution in public,” he said.

In July, 2009, two months after a provincial election in which the B.C. Liberals ruled out the HST, Mr. Campbell announced the province. would follow Ontario’s lead in creating a single harmonized sales tax. Mr. Campbell resigned in late 2010, only 17 months into a third Liberal term, suggesting his own unpopularity over the HST was blocking the government’s economic agenda.

Mr. Campbell was recently named Canada’s new high commissioner to the United Kingdom. On Friday, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Mr. Campbell would not be available for comment.
“I think for many people, it was really difficult to get over the way this tax was brought in and I think you saw that in the results,” Ms. Clark said, promising better engagement with citizens.




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