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Article #151Re: Referendum intitiatives in BC
From: John Paul Morrison
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 07:06
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 07:06
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In article <schuck.721291284@sfu.ca> Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca writes: >jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) writes: > >>Well, it's been a year or so since the provincial election. I'm sure >>most people voted, and voted on two questions included on the ballot. > >>I can't remember the exact details, but I know they were regarding >>direct democracy ballot inititiatives. I think it was so we could >>propose referendum questions. > >>Does anyone remember more clearly what the questions were? I know >>that they both passed easily in the provincial election. > >1) Recall -- the right to recall an elected MLA > Gee, I wonder why the NDP have been slow on this one. :) > >2) Referendum -- the right to hold referendums. > Gee, I wonder why the NDP have been slow on this one. :) > >>And why haven't we heard anything about this? I think the legislature >>has to debate the law. Are the NDP trying to hope we forget, or are things >>actually in the works? > >I saw an ad in the paper a week or two ago calling for submissions. >A very small ad. :) > Well, I didn't see the ad in the Globe & Mail, so obviously they aren't serious in reaching me :-) > >-- >============================================================================ >"We've got to get bigger guns" -- Dick Durkin schuck@sfu.ca >============================================================================ -- __________________________________________________________________________ John Paul Morrison | University of British Columbia, Canada | Electrical Engineering | .sig file without a cause jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca VE7JPM | ________________________________________|_________________________________
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Newsgroups: bc.general Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!van-bc!cs.ubc.ca!fs1.ee.ubc.ca!jmorriso From: jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) Subject: Re: Referendum intitiatives in BC Message-ID: <1992Nov10.070656.14003@ee.ubc.ca> Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering References: <1992Nov9.030551.21131@ee.ubc.ca> <1992Nov9.031109.21231@ee.ubc.ca> <schuck.721291284@sfu.ca> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 07:06:56 GMT Lines: 44