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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 After allowing for blanks, duplications and those submissions that were later withdrawn by the people who sent them, the real total is 1,603.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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BOND-1126

I believe that the Mixed Member Proportional [MMP] system would be the best and fairest for the people of British Columbia. [1 page]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Kenneth Bond
Date: Aug 12, 2004

BONNETT-0540

An MMP system with an open list is the most useful model to adopt if it takes adequate consideration of those of us living in rural British Columbia. Clearly a threshold needs to be set to preclude too many parties receiving seats. [1 page]
Category: Electoral system change, Regional representation
Author: Ms Penelope Bonnett
Date: Jun 02, 2004

BONNOR-1590

I believe the Mixed Member Proportional [MMP] System would provide the best electoral system for BC, helping to address regional inequities such as the rural/urban split and provide a means of making every vote count. [1 page]
Category: Electoral system change, Regional representation
Author: Michael Bonnor
Date: Sep 12, 2004

BOOIMAN-0129

No matter what system will be suggested undoubtedly it will have flaws but it will be a great improvement on what we have today.  First-past-the-post has brought us years of democratically elected dictatorships. [1 page]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Suan Booiman
Date: Mar 29, 2004

BOON-0274

The main challenge with proportional representation is to change the vision of government from 'some people up there' who have ultimate power, to a body of democratically elected people representing all sectors of society. [1 page]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Sarah Boon
Date: May 04, 2004

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