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   >>   wrote in message news:KqhLn.92721$0M5.15400   
   newsfe07.iad...   
   >>> Yes !  Point Grey is a wealthy neighbourhood of people who could probably   
   >>> afford paying more taxes - moreso than 90% of the rest of the Province,   
   >>> but even THEY are fed up.  Good on you, Point-Grey residents.  Two more   
   >>> ridings to go, and it's done.   
   >>> Then we see if Campbell and his dogs dare to defy the voters on having a   
   >>> GST referendum - and killing the HST.   
      
   Robert MacKenzie wrote:   
   >> The HST will stay. You should now go after the NDP to ensure that they   
   >> repeal it as a condition   
   >> of their becoming government, as the BC Liberals will not get rid of the   
   >> HST.   
      
   "Canuck57"  wrote   
   > NDP repeal taxes, LMAO.  No way to enforce that as a condition either. BCers   
   need a new   
   > party.  Start by voting in lots of independent types which signals you want   
   a better   
   > choice than the Lib or NDP.   
      
   Again, you ignorant person:   
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   HST opponents take heart from Saskatchewan's example   
      
   A new provincial government quickly dumped the hated tax in 1991   
      
   By Vaughn Palmer, Vancouver SunMay 5, 2010   
      
      
   While the B.C. Liberals have tried to frame the drive to sales tax   
   harmonization as a   
   one-way street, there is one instance of a Canadian province heading down that   
   particular   
   road, then reversing direction.   
      
   It happened at the outset of the national shift to value-added taxation, of   
   which the   
   federal goods and services tax and its pending successor, the harmonized sales   
   tax, are   
   both examples.   
      
   Just weeks after the GST took effect nationally on Jan. 1, 1991, the then   
   Saskatchewan   
   government of Premier Grant Devine announced it would harmonize the province's   
   seven-per-cent sales tax with the seven-percent federal levy.   
      
   The changeover began April 1 of that year with the province moving to the same   
   base as the   
   goods portion of the federal tax.   
      
   The phase-in was scheduled to be completed on Jan. 1, 1992, with harmonization   
   of the   
   provincial and federal tax bases on services as well.   
      
   Unfortunately for Devine and his fellow Conservatives, he had to face the   
   voters that   
   year, having run out of the full five years of his mandate, and the   
   anti-harmonization   
   backlash helped cost him the election.   
      
   On sweeping to power on Oct. 21, 1991, the New Democratic Party under new   
   premier Roy   
   Romanow lost little time consigning the harmonization to the ash heap of   
   provincial   
   history, along with Devine and his Conservatives.   
      
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