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Mark Anderson (manderso@mpr.ca) wrote:
>jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) writes:
>>Does anyone remember more clearly what the questions were?
>
>One asked whether electors should have the right to submit questions
>for referendum in provincial elections.  The other asked whether electors
>should be able to remove their MLA from office between elections.
>
>>And why haven't we heard anything about this?
>
>We have.  I saw notices in the papers last week soliciting comments from
>the public on the questions and referendum results.  Presumably a
>commission will make recommendations on how the questions should be
>interpreted and the policies implemented.

Vaughn Palmer had a column in the Sun last week (I think it was last week),
in which he quoted various stalling tactics that the NDP seemed to be
intent on using on the initiatives and recall issues. This is to be
expected as the NDP were never fans of initiatives and recall and I suspect
Harcourt supported both during the provincial campaign simply for the sake
of expediency. I imagine that in the end it will be up to "ordinary BCers"
to pressure their MLAs if we really want to see these reforms.
-- 
Jim Robinson
robinson@mdd.comm.mot.com
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