🚀 go-pugleaf

Gordon McKenzie <gordmck@1.direct.ca.com> wrote:

...
>> So basically the BC government says we'll take your
>> non-resident money but if as you reside SOMEWHERE in the
>> province you can tell your neighbour what to do.

>I think the issue is that yourself, as a temporary resident of the area,
>would be unrepresentative of the issues the residents have to face. 

True - your point is accepted at least in principle.  But
isn't the reverse also true?

>Does
>someone who vacations in an area have the same rights as someone who
>lives in the area year round?
>
But  how then do you explain the fact that a person from
say, Vancouver (my neighbour  at the lake) can vote while I
can't?

As for  rights of one who spends significant portions of 7 -
8 months versus twelve - I'm not sure.  Which is why I pay
for 12 months of fire and police protection, a full school
year even though we will never use it, and the like.

>
>I know Whistler was fighting over this issue a while back. A bunch of
>people who used the area two months of the year controlling what
>happened 12 months of the year and the actual residents getting very
>upset about it. Anyone know what the end result of that was?

I am not asking about upsetting the balance of local versus
non-local, I'm just trying to figure out why there's
discrimination against non-BC (not non-local!) residents.

Tom