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Submitted by Bob Simpson, MLA Cariboo North

This week the legislative process worked the way it ought to with respect to one aspect of one bill on the government’s agenda: the Forest Service Providers Protection Act.

Cariboo Chilcotin - “On a slow day canvassers gather 50 signatures while on a most days 100 signatures are collected”, says Eric Freeston, regional organizer in Cariboo Chilcotin for the Initiative to End the Harmonized Sales Tax. “Now, just seven weeks into a 90 day campaign, we have 7500 names - approximately 2000 more signatures than the number of people who voted for Donna Barnett in the 2009 Provincial Election.”

Maude Barlow, the National Chair of the Council of Canadians will visit Williams Lake on May 25 and May 26.  She will head up a panel to speak at a public meeting on the evening of May 26 in Williams Lake Secondary School.  The free event is sponsored by the Williams Lake Chapter of the Council of Canadians.

Local NDP candidate Michael Crawford is calling on MP Cathy McLeod and the Harper Conservatives to stop the corporate tax giveaways and invest in a pension system that will ensure Canada’s seniors can live with dignity.