SUBMISSIONS FROM THE PUBLIC
Members of the public sent to the Assembly a total of
1,603 public submissions during the 13 months ended 27
September 2004. And you can access them all lower down on this
page.
Incidentally, the numbers on the submissions appear to show that
there are 1,669 of them. After allowing for blanks, duplications
and those submissions that were later withdrawn by the people who
sent them, the real total is 1,603. Unfortunately, we cannot
renumber the submissions to reflect that.
If a posted submission is dated after 27 September, that date
refers to the date the submission was processed and posted to the
website, not the date it was received.
To help you navigate through the 1,603 submissions received from
the public, here are:
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An introduction to the submissions, available as a Word
document (40KB) or as a PDF
document (110KB).
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A link to the
View Submissions page, where you can read and/or search 1,603
submissions
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A complete list of the submissions and their abstracts,
available as an Excel
spreadsheet (472KB) or as a
PDF (348KB)
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A guide to the longer submissions (i.e., 80 submissions that run
four or more pages in length). This guide is available as a Word
document (36KB) or as a PDF
file (96KB).
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A list of the 80 longer submissions, indexed by electoral system
and including abstracts. This list is available as an Excel
spreadsheet (40KB) or as a PDF
item (90KB).
Submission List
To read a submission in full, click on the submitter's name/number
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Perhaps the system could be completely changed by eliminating
political parties. MLAs would
act in the best interest of the province with input from
their own constituents and with none of the concern of following
party lines. [1 page]
Category: Democratic government
Author: Jeanne Berdan
Date: Jun 18, 2004
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I recommend preferential voting [the alternative
vote] for British Columbia. It might
moderate the wild swings in representation and unbalanced numbers
that have caused us so much ideologically-inspired grief over the
past decade. [1 page]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Desmond Berghofer
Date: Mar 24, 2004
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The quality of democracy would be improved if citizens had the
right to introduce their own proposals or laws to be put
to the people's vote, and the right to change or veto laws passed
by parliament. [1 page]
Category: Democratic government
Author: Desmond Berghofer
Date: Mar 26, 2004
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I am for the MMP system. I am against the STV
system. [1 page]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Frederick Bergman
Date: Aug 11, 2004
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I prefer proportional government. The
legislature should have a total of 1,000 votes; each
elected representative will have the proportional voting power of
his party’s proportional vote from the public. [2
pages]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Mr Larry Bergquist
Date: May 05, 2004
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