Opinion poll finds north
in favour of recall method |

NEARLY 60 per cent of
northemers support the idea
of recalling MLAs, says a
poll commissioned by the
Canadian Taxpayers Feder-
ation.

The federation, which is
helping prepare the ground-
work for campaigns to recall
Skeena NDP MLA Helmut
Giesbrecht and Prince
George cabinet minister
Paul Ramsey, welcomed the
number,

“The public is not going
to sign a recall petition for
the sake of signing a peti-
tion,’’ said federation exec-
utive director Troy Lanigan,

“The public will only sign
if there is just cause,”’

That northem result was
taken from a province-wide
poll conducted between Oct.

Recall organizers must sign up 40 per
cent of the people who were on the
voters list for the last provincial election.

7 and Oct. 9.

Tt asked, ‘“‘As you may be
aware, there is now legish-
tion to allow constituents to
recall their MLA and cause
a new election to be held. If
a petition was circulated in
your riding to recall your
MLA, would you sign it?”

Across B.C., the response
was 45 per cent ‘yes’, 35

_per cent ‘no’ and 20 per cent

undecided,

In the north, ‘yes’ was the
response of 59 per cent of
those polled while 31 per
cent said ‘no’ and 12 per
cent were undecided.

The federation is promot-
ing recall based on state-
ments made by the NDP
government before the last
provincial election which
indicated the budget was
balanced.

Information released after
the NDP win revealed the
budget was in a severe
deficit.

“The poll shows that a
majority of British Colum-
bians support the use of
tecall to hold the govem-
ment accountable for their
budget lies,” said Lanigan.

Recall organizers must

Group wants vote change

A GROUP HAS been
formed to look at different
ways for voters to choose
the people they send to the
provincial legislature,

The current system of
first-past-the-post doesn’t
work because it gives politi-
cal parties 100 per cent of
the power even though they
may have gathered a minori-
ty of voter support, says the

Electoral Change Coalition ,

of B.C,

This system is based on
parties forming govern-
ments according to the num-
ber of electoral seats ‘their
candidates win.

But moves to change the

syslem gathered force last:

year after the provincial
election. Although the NDP
received fewer votes in total
than did the Liberals, they
were retumed (o govern-
ment because they won
more seats.

One suggested method is

proportional representation
in which the percentage of
popular vote a party
achieves across the province
is tied to the number of seats
it has in the legislature.

Another method is allow-
ing voters to list their pref-
erences while casting bal-
lots.

It’s based on candidates
receiving atleast 50 per cent
of the vote.

That’s achieved by
eliminating the candidate
who receives the least votes
each time ballots are
counted. The second prefer-
ence of those who voted for
this candidate are then taken
and assigned to the remain-
ing candidates.

This continues until one
candidate gathers at least 50
per cent of the vote.

The alliance wants first to
tell voters about alternatives
and then to hold a
referendum to determine if

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the current sysiem should be
changed.

Alliance members include
those belonging to the
Reform Party of B.C., the
Green Party, the Progressive
Democratic Alliance and the
Canadian Taxpayers Feder-
ation.

sign up 40 per cent of the
" eople who were om the
voters list for the last
provincial election.

In Giesbrecht’s Skeena
riding, that works out to

roughly 7,500 people And.

organizers have 60 days in
which to gather the signa-
tures.

A by-election is held after
Elections B.C. officials
ensure those who signed are
qualified to do so.

Recall legislation states a
campaign can only start 18
months after the May 1996
election, making for an off-
cial start day here of Nov,
28.

The federation poll was.

conducted by the Mark-
Trend research company
which talked to 501 people.
It is considered accurate
with 4.4 percent 19 times
out of 20,

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from opposition polilical
parties, from those affected
by the Skeena Cellulose
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