<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">This article promotes the idea that lower taxes are a benefit. I have come to the conclusion that lower taxes are a<div class="">risk to society. Premier Ford has promised to reduce taxes. He can only do so by withdrawing funding from</div><div class="">healthcare, education, social programs, environmental protection, infrastructure, etc. I am prepared to pay higher taxes so these pillars of </div><div class="">a just and caring society can be maintained. Let us promote the idea that the role of government is to improve the lot of all citizens,</div><div class="">not just those who are wealthy.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Paul Schellenberg<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 19, 2018, at 8:55 AM, Dave Arthur <<a href="mailto:arthurd23@bell.net" class="">arthurd23@bell.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Check out this article in today’s Vancouver Sun written by a prof at U of Windsor, Ontario, also a member of the Fraser Institute.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">It’s not encouraging.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Dave A</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Lydia Miljan: The costs of changing the way British Columbians vote<br class="">The research is clear — a move from its current first-past-the-post electoral system to a proportional system would likely increase both government spending and deficits in B.C. When voting in the electoral reform referendum, British Columbians should understand the consequences of changing the way they vote.<br class=""><a href="https://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/lydia-miljan-the-costs-of-changing-the-way-british-columbians-vote" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/lydia-miljan-the-costs-of-changing-the-way-british-columbians-vote</a></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Sent from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">Mail</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for Windows 10</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; border: none; padding: 0in;" class=""><b class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><a href="mailto:2jennross@gmail.com" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">Jennifer Ross</a><br class=""><b class="">Sent:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Wednesday, October 17, 2018 6:02 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><a href="mailto:fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">FVC Waterloo Region Discussion</a><br class=""><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Re: [fvc-wat-disc] letter to BC newspapers</div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Yeah, I don't think so. One of the No sides great messages is that everything will be decided by Vancouver, so to have it decided by Ontario would just be that much worse. But what you CAN do is sign up for the telephone GOTV that's going on. Which I don't have the information at my fingertips but if you are interested and have some time starting the 22nd, I think, there is training available by video now and I can connect you to well, Anita, who might be reading this anyway.</div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Jenn</div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">Bookkeeping Services</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">519-501-2736</span></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(136, 136, 136);" class="">No other Western democratic country concentrates as much political power in the hands of one person as Canada does with her Prime Minister.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 5:11 PM Dave Arthur <<a href="mailto:arthurd23@bell.net" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">arthurd23@bell.net</a>> wrote:</div></div><blockquote style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 0in 0in 0in 6pt; margin-left: 4.8pt; margin-right: 0in;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I think we have all been closely following the BC referendum and been very concerned with the lies being said about PR.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Anita has told us about the website attempting to give citizens the facts and was hacked.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I have checked out the Vancouver Sun and Victoria Times-Colonist and read op-eds and letters for and against.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">We are told it’s close and could go either way.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I know voteprbc is doing all they can with the resources they have.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I wish there was more we could do.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I would like to try to send a letter to these two papers.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I have no idea how a letter from someone in Ontario would be accepted.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Comments?</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Dave A</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">To our fellow Canadians living in British Columbia.<br class="">You are our hope for electoral system change. We were very disappointed and angry when Justin Trudeau ignored the overwhelming evidence and support for proportional representation presented to his committee and at town halls, and then reneged on his promise. We ask that you separate facts from fictions about PR. When 90% of EU and OECD countries use PR, when countries like New Zealand, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and others have moved from FPTP to PR, when no countries have moved the other way, and when PR is proven to provide more cooperation, consensus, long range planning, civility, effective voting as well as local representation for everyone, and actually reduces the chance of an extreme party gaining a false majority, PR is clearly the best choice. Please vote for PR.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">David Arthur,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">Kitchener, Ontario</span></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Sent from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">Mail</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for Windows 10</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; 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