Doug Ward, Vancouver Sun November 15, 2010
VANCOUVER -- Fight HST leader Bill Vander Zalm announced today that the riding of Oak Bay-Gordon Head will be the first of three initial MLA recalls his organization will stage on southern Vancouver Island. The former premier said canvassers from neighbouring ridings Saanich North and the Islands and Comox Valley will combine with Oak Bay-Gordon Head volunteers to build an army of over 600 canvassers to hit the riding starting Nov. 22 and extending over a period of four to six weeks. Vander Zalm said the canvassers need to gather 18,000 signatures to recall Oak Bay-Gordon Head MLA Ida Chong -- the first of several B.C. Liberal MLAs that Fight HST has targeted. Vander Zalm said his group hopes to finish the riding petition by the second week of January and then dispatch the same army of canvassers over to Comox Valley and Saanich North in an attempt to recall the B.C. Liberal MLAs in those ridings. The interior ridings of Kamloops North and Cariboo Chilcotin, two neighbouring ridings, will be next on the recall list, the Fight HST leader said. On Monday, Vander Zalm announced Vander Zalm announced in September that his Fight HST organization would launch recall campaigns if the government did not change its approach to a provincewide vote on the tax planned for September 2011.
VANCOUVER -- Fight HST leader Bill Vander Zalm announced today that the riding of Oak Bay-Gordon Head will be the first of three initial MLA recalls his organization will stage on southern Vancouver Island. The former premier said canvassers from neighbouring ridings Saanich North and the Islands and Comox Valley will combine with Oak Bay-Gordon Head volunteers to build an army of over 600 canvassers to hit the riding starting Nov. 22 and extending over a period of four to six weeks. Vander Zalm said the canvassers need to gather 18,000 signatures to recall Oak Bay-Gordon Head MLA Ida Chong -- the first of several B.C. Liberal MLAs that Fight HST has targeted. Vander Zalm said his group hopes to finish the riding petition by the second week of January and then dispatch the same army of canvassers over to Comox Valley and Saanich North in an attempt to recall the B.C. Liberal MLAs in those ridings. The interior ridings of Kamloops North and Cariboo Chilcotin, two neighbouring ridings, will be next on the recall list, the Fight HST leader said. On Monday, Vander Zalm announced Vander Zalm announced in September that his Fight HST organization would launch recall campaigns if the government did not change its approach to a provincewide vote on the tax planned for September 2011.
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