Province Wants Your Input on Next Provincial Budget

Wednesday, September 01, 2010 02:30 PM

Prince George, B.C.- The Province’s Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services is coming to Prince George in October to gather input for the development of the next Provincial budget.

The province wide public consultation will start in Vancouver on September 15^th. The committee will visit several communities in the lower mainland before heading north to Fort St John on October 4^th, followed by the session in Prince George on October 5^th to hear submissions from 9.a.m to 1:00 pm.

The committee will then head to Terrace for sessions from 5:00 to 8:00 on the same day.

The Budget 2011 Consultation Paper will form the basis for the discussions and it will be released on September 15^th.

In all, this year’s public consultation hearings will visit 14 communities and video conference hearings will reach another nine.

All British Columbians are invited to attend the hearings or participate by sending a written or electronic submission, responding to the online survey, or submitting an audio or video file.

Registration for the public hearings and video conference hearings opens on September 9. To register, please contact committee staff by phone, 1-877-428-8337, or by e-mail: FinanceCommittee@leg.bc.ca.

The call for public input closes on Friday, October 15, and the Committee will complete its report by Monday, November 15.

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Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 02:30 PM in News by 250 News

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Comments

Posted by: sekwof on September 1 2010 2:58 PM

Why is there an American flag next to a phone number for a Canadian,BC, public hearing ?? Skype numbers also have Canadian flags !!! ??

Posted by: supertech on September 1 2010 5:59 PM

Could be a USA number.

Posted by: saywhat on September 1 2010 6:43 PM

Here's my input

Stop lying to the people that elected you.

Buy only what we need.

Posted by: gus on September 1 2010 7:24 PM

PsssssT ... lower the PST part of the HST to 2% and make the HST 7% ..... You might not be able to get rid of the HST for 5 years, but I believe we can change the provincial component of it.

Pick up the rest of the money from those companies that do not show a lowering of their price structure. In other words, they have a choice, verify that they have dropped their price, or pay the same amount that they have not lowered their price in tax to the province.

Posted by: sekwof on September 1 2010 7:34 PM

Gus--you didn't answer my question. You just shot bullshit thro' the internet.

Posted by: lost it all on September 1 2010 7:50 PM

Like the opinions of the BC voter mean anything to this Liberal government.

Posted by: supertech on September 1 2010 9:26 PM

Yeah--talk about a futile effort: giving input to any elected government of BC (regardless of stripes)

Posted by: Eagleone on September 1 2010 11:03 PM

These people should be in jail for electoral fraud not traveling around the province 'asking' us how they should be spending our tax dollars.

Posted by: alex1212 on September 2 2010 3:47 AM

idiots complete idiots !!!

Posted by: Junco on September 2 2010 11:03 AM

So now these arch morons think that they can play silly bugger with the voters. It's pathetically obvious that they think that by pretending to want our "input" on the next provincial budget that they actually give a crap about the people of this province. Nice try! Idiots!

I say we give them some "input" and picket the dog and pony show with Get Rid of the HST placards.

Posted by: Chester on September 3 2010 10:31 PM

They got our input and have shown us what they intend to do with it. Why do you think we get just a little jaded when they ask us for our input? Silly isn't the word. They are going through the motions of what they should do, but what's the point? They still do what they want anyway?

Oh, well, you were given an opportunity to provide input. So, what else are we to do? We got voted in to make the big decisions, not you.