Lets keep it going folks we an stop this if we just keep it up. Recall is coming in November. And after that Christmas. What a perfect time to start boycotting all these places that are now collecting it. Places like walmart. costco. Speaking of costco when they wanted HST for a new membership I threw the application away. No way I am goingto pay HST to them. EVERYONE should do the same. Starve these corporations out and just dont shop there. Its kool for them to do it to you and me so FIGHT BACK. BOYCOTT all big box places. I am only going to do any business with local small shops from now on. It is these corporate pigs that are responsible for bringing this HST to you. FIGHT BACK and boycott them.

The Campbell gang is badmouthing the anti-HST side and trying to convince people that it is a done deal, and the petition is a waste of time.
Wrong.
Keep it going,because in reality,they are running scared.
They did not anticipate such a strong protest and they know they have a major problem on their dirty hands.
Keep up the good work,standing up does make a difference!

Please everyone sign the petition and help fight the HST. Lets keep the pressure on the Campbell Gouvernment to beat this.

I blame Harper mostly for all of this. He used/is going to use billions of dollars of OUR MONEY to bribe the provinces to screw us. Our constitution states clearly that it is the responsibility of the provinces to tax the people directly. There is a picture of Harper sitting with members of the Bilderberg group prior to his becoming Prime Minister. Read up on this group and you begin to see the signs. We are 500 billions dollars in debt yet we spend on things like a bridge for another country while chucks of our own bridges fall. Our hard earned taxes are flowing out of this country continously. Provincially we will send all our tax dollars to the East and have to beg for our share back. And we all know how the shares have been cut until this point. I want to hang out with the western provinces in this matter and have they adoubted the HST. Hell no! Our politicians are just puppets. Canada is being stripped of its democracy, natural recourses and rights. Slowly but surely we are becoming exactly what was planned 400 years ago. When will people believe what is happening? When we enter into the American Union or the actual World government? Time will only tell but if we wait for that it WILL be too late.
Gods plan for us was to be a slave to no one.
All through mans history we have been slaves to others. This time we are slaves to the monetary system and the banks.
Boycott the banks if you really want to make a difference. Wal-Mart is nothing compared to them.

In the coming weeks, (it's already started now), the Campbell government will have their "spin doctors" writing carefully scripted propaganda pieces which will deceptively quote selected statistics showing that the shift to "consumption taxes", like the HST, is supposed to be "good for us".

One such claim we'll hear will be that "other countries" have adopted these taxes, and their removal as a business cost will lead, over time, to "lower prices" for consumers.

They won't be specific about where this has happened, or how the comparison between 'prices' before and after has been made.

When you read their propaganda, if you have the opportunity to question the notable personage whose name will be appended to it, please take the opportunity to do so.

These will be people who are the head honchos of various business "associations", many of whom have member companies that are beholden to having what we might call "favourable relations" with Gordon Campbell's government in order to continue to access public resourses.

Last night I e-mailed a correspondent of mine, an 82 year old small farmer in New Zealand, who, despite his years, raises cattle and (mostly, now) tropical flowering plants for export to Japan up near the top of North Island.

I had heard that New Zealand has a similar tax to the HST, only down there, they call it the GST, and asked him about that country's experience with it. Here's what he wrote back:-

"GST came in some years ago (80's) at 10%. Labour Govt. National promised to delete it,but raised it to 12.5%.
Now likely to go to 15%. Bloody nuisance; have to claim all payments to other businesses and then
pay out the difference on sales. More paper work than it's worth. Charged on all goods and services now, including rates (local taxes).

"Not finanical payments.

"Government should replace it with a 1% or less financial transaction tax, to hit the speculative economy as well as the productive one. Would be collected by computer by the banks for every withdrawal. Simple.

"The drought has cracked, but getting a bit cool for good grass growth. More rain needed."

Good luck with boycotting everything, mattyc. Let us all know how that works out for you.

I wouldn't stop at 15%. Take names until the last minute.

We signed up at the home show on Sunday and there was lots waiting to sign.I'm sure our P.G.Mackenzie riding will go over the top.Get out and sign it people.

I used to subscribe to the idea that if we kept our primary resource industries in good shape that our entire economy would do pretty well overall. While that may still make sense in some ways, other things have changed that make this not so simple and not so beneficial to our communities, our provinces and the country as a whole.

Big business has gotten much bigger and more international/global corporations have grown to control the world's resources they need as well as the markets which they now dominate in most industrial sectors.

One downside to this international/global free for all of monopolising the commerce side is that it also provides the powers to dictate to governments its demands for which fuel THEIR growth and THEIR prosperity. Being an international corporation does not include their growth or their prosperity being locally shared or kept where it is generated.

Very seldom is a corporation committed to the longterm wellbeing and sustainability of a community, a region, a province or a country for that matter. Its simply a matter of exploiting opportunities which make the biggest returns to the shareholders and when profits do not meet this expectation then the corporation simply shuts its doors, moves somewhere else with greener pastures to exploit.

A company claiming "to have its roots in your community" actually do not when profits are less than somewhere else,like the southern US. Whether it be a favourable tax system or lower priced resources, the many juristictions of the world now compete for the few largest corporations to operate in their more advantaged economic settings.

Governments get elected by citizens which believe they are promoting economic development,job creation and the big anouncements that go along with this as percieved security in longterm benefits.

So competetive that the various juristictions all over the world have become, that the few dominant international corporations do not have to pay much for the resources, do not have to pay much for taxes, or be committed to even operating when profits do not meet their expectations.

The BC liberals and the federal conservatives are both firmly committed to giving priority to the big corporate economic development news stories. Regardless of how little benefit is actually generated or how vulnerable our economy becomes,THEY see this as political security regardless of its costs and uncertainty to communities,provinces and the country.

The HST is just one more of these tax breaks designed to improve the corporate bottom line while transferring this tax load upon the public.

This is a politically motivated transfer of wealth, a transfer of jobs from small business to foreign owned big business for as long as we can compete globally as the best place with the most giveaways for these big corporations to operate here. We will suffer the short game and we can not win the endgame by doing this.

I wonder if we should get a pro HST petition.

He spoke,

no need to, its already law.

A pro hst petition. Please do. This should be interested. Law's can be changed. FOOLS.

It was not Campbell
It was not Harper
It was not even our federal government of any day.

This was dictated to our leaders more than 2 decades ago at the international level.

Look it up. Canada was not the first, and will not be the last. Just check out all the countries around the world that already have this in place or have immediate plans to implement this taxation strategy.

Just wait, there is more coming. I am expecting the announcement of the UN taxation scheme to begin in about a decade from now.

Call me crazy (I know some of you think as much), but I keep being proven correct. I bet Stompin Tom or Gus could find some indicators of these discrete facts.

No need to boycott Costco on purpose. That card went when the job ended. One day this government is just going to piss off the wrong people. When one hits the the bottom, you never know what one is capable of.

MrPG,do you really think because mattyc says in one of his posts that we all should boycott the major corporations,we all are going to follow along.God help us if mattyc,posts that we all should jump off a bridge.So why do you even respond to his posts by belittling him/her,when I can accept the post,as mattyc way of expressing his/her way of protesting the HST.People wiil generally do what they can to either protest or support something to the best of their ability,without making their lives more complicated.That is the way I see things in today's society.

gst,hst.blt.blah blagh who cares !!fight for something that really gets to them !! like pensions,the perks the raises !! etc etc ,,,,

"MrPG,do you really think because mattyc says in one of his posts that we all should boycott the major corporations,we all are going to follow along."

Where did I say that? I was wishing him luck in his boycott... I didn't say anything about anybody else.

And just like you and mattyc, I am entitled to my opinion, thank you very much.