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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 After allowing for blanks, duplications and those submissions that were later withdrawn by the people who sent them, the real total is 1,603.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:
  1. An introduction to the submissions, available as a Word document (40KB) or as a PDF document (110KB).
  2. A link to the View Submissions page, where you can read and/or search 1,603 submissions
  3. A complete list of the submissions and their abstracts, available as an Excel spreadsheet (472KB) or as a PDF (348KB)
  4. 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).
  5. 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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BILLY-0299

I highly favour a proportional representation system of electing the government BC with less adversarial politics than at present.  Too little time is spent in productive discussion aimed at resolving problems for the benefit of citizens. [1 page] ...
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Mary Billy
Date: May 06, 2004

BILLY-0656

I am impressed with the Citizens' Assembly process and know that other Canadian provinces, indeed even our own federal government is also impressed, and watching to see how it is being done. [1 page]
Category: Citizens' Assembly process
Author: Mary E Billy
Date: Jun 16, 2004

BINGEL-0079

An electronic parliament would make citizens' assemblies a permanent feature of government and would establish a truly participatory democracy [1 page + link]
Category: Democratic government, Other
Author: Hans Bingel
Date: Feb 05, 2004

BIRNEY-1268

BC badly needs a Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) voting system, not a Single Transferable Vote (STV) system. In general this would provide a truer democracy; in particular this would soften the severity of  election swings. [1 page]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: William Birney
Date: Aug 13, 2004

BLACOE-0379

We need better representation in the legislature; the Mixed-Member Proportional (MMP) system used in New Zealand is one system that will give us better representation in the BC legislature. [1 page]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: David Blacoe
Date: May 11, 2004

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