Politics

The BC NDP has introduced this spring legislature session Bill 7 - "ECONOMIC STABILIZATION (TARIFF RESPONSE) ACT". The claimed reasoning behind it is the extremely unpredictable economic environment due to the aggressive and malevolent actions particularly tariffs taken by President Trump against Canada. However, the bill is deeply flawed.

It took a while - especially with summer holidays and a fall election - but discussions with CRD Directors Al Wickheim & Paul Brent where much more productive. The conclusion is that it is best to approach this as a community wide issue rather than a single neighbourhood. So, onwards...

Canada’s and (in my particular experience) BC's voting systems are secure and resilient. 

Are there problems? Yes. Is it corrupted? Not at this time. Are there sufficient checks to ensure accuracy? Yes -- if we take advantage of them.

You may be asking… who am I to be making these grandiose claims? Read on to find out.

Despite, a fair degree of communication and politely worded, the final answer from MOTI is essentially "that isn't in our normal procedure go pound sand", but maybe one day. With a slight hint that a direct request from the CRD would have more weight but likely be short term ignored as well.