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Revelstoke Mountain Resort

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the citizens initiative petition bill states that when the HST is cancelled that any additional HST charged on previously PST exempt items will be distributed evenly to all british columbians.

so, in a few months when the HST is repealed we will all get our money back.

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There are ALOT of great benefits that the HST brings. consumption taxes are the way to go for sure. and as a new business I am glad I only have to do sales tax filing once!

But to add a new tax to items that were previously exempt because they are needed by all in society or because they promote healthy living and green initiatives is plain WRONG.

Its too bad that the BC liberals complete incompetence has failed to modernize our tax system into something that could have been good. Guess they couldn’t have kept the same PST exemptions for the regular folks after cutting so much tax from their big business buddies.

Only good thing that is coming out of this whole HST mess is that people are finally realizing just how corrupt and incompetent the BC liberal party is. Too bad they didn’t figure it out before the last election!

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precisely….

a prime of example of this is the exemption from the BC Environmental Assessment process that BP has received for its Mist Mountain Project.

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cedars

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it’s true. sustainable de-growth is an oxymoron. So is sustainable growth.

Why do we have to grow or de-grow. Why cant we figure out how to prosper with what we have before us. Why doesn’t the current population create an innovative new economic driver that will allow us to live here in Harmony and not rely on the fickle tourism industry and the uncertainty (and eventual closure when the ore runs out) of the mines?

Some cool innovative farming on all our our rich farmland that is currently mostly unused. Some green widget factory of some sort.. Selenium farming from our selenium rich river to sell selenium supplements (say that 5 times fast!)

There’s lots of economies we aren’t taking advantage of here that don’t require growth to be successful (although they may encourage it)

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I think Fernie is "de-growthing" because the people who never really liked living here anyway because it was "too cold, too much snow, no wal mart, too many people on bikes and on and on …. are all packing up and leaving! Like the sign used to say at the entrance to town. "Love it or Leave it!"

Im with you earth1st. lets embrace our de-growthing and plan to adapt to a smaller (perhaps more sustainable?) population.

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what happens when all the coal is gone in the decades you speak of? no matter what way you try to spin it mining is not sustainable. There is a finite resource that does not renew(for millions of years) and when it is gone it is gone.

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ok folks. lets not be fooled by "aquifers" and "springs" Where do you think the water in those came from? especially if they are under a body of water like the elk river or fairy creek.. they most likely are fed by those bodies of water.. Aquifers are all connected in some way or another.

I’m not sure how deep an aquifer the "river pump" well is at the ski hill. But I believe that the fairy creek "spring" is not so deep which is why it can get siltation in it during high water flows.

I would much rather drink turbid water from a pristine mountain creek (city of fernie) than an "aquifer" underneath the elk river and below the ski hill runoff.

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Doesn’t west fernie use the City of Fernie water system without having to pay city taxes?

good to hear about the ski hill water. I asked a question about this a while back and never got much of an answer. Good to know that it comes out of the elk river.. downstream of 2 sewage treatment plants and 5 coal mines. mmm mmm

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mushroom head

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you said it best

mikes said – "I can listen without agreeing, you should try it."

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So…

cheaper for beer to get me a beer belly. (and the health risks related with it)
more expensive for me to stay fit with tax on fitness related services and items, and cycling – http://www.nofitnesstax.ca/

but its all ok because the HST is going to help fund healthcare. phew!

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15% and counting! Lets push for 50% folks!

http://www.thefreepress.ca/article/2010 … ast-voters

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thanks Canadiankid… PM sent.

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