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Oceanside Coalition for Strong Communities

Welcome to our website, please ask others to visit here as well.                         Thank you

 

Please click on the Democracy page for "Stephen Harper's not-so-benign dictatorship." and
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Proroguing Parliament – a travesty, yet clever: move by Harper a defeat for those who think government should be honest, open and accountable."
Below on this page, we need your help to fight the HST - "Hated Sales Tax" - the tax which will transfer the corporate tax burden to individuals.


Please help Alexandra Morton save the wild salmon


Alexandra works to conserve and protect wild salmon species on the Pacific Coast from the threats posed by fish farming.   She was primarily responsible for the successful court case that found fish farming was ENTIRELY the responsibility of the federal Department of Fisheries, not the province.  The current schedule has the province turning over all responsibility in February.

She needs your help with repeated writing to your MP; Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and Stephen Harper to eliminate fish farms, because they have depleted natural fish stocks in Norway, Ireland and Scotland as well as in Canada.

For those that find writing letters is hard work or don't have time to be creative at the present,  please go to ComFish Action for four predefined letters.

Member of Parliament for Nanaimo Alberni Riding

The Honourable Dr. James Lunney MP
6-6894 Island Hwy N,
Nanaimo, BC V9V 1P6
Phone 1-866-390-7550, Fax 250-390-7551
Nanaimo@jameslunneymp.ca

If you are uncertain your Canadian Federal political representative information, find your member on the Members of Parliament list and click on the members name for contact details.


Hon. Gail Shea
Minister of Fisheries and Oceans House of Commons, Ottawa,  ON, K1A 0A6
Telephone: (902) 432-6899
Shea.G@parl.gc.ca

The Right Honourable Steven Harper
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street, Ottawa, K1A 0A2
Fax: 613-941-6900
pm@pm.gc.ca




Please go to our fisheries page for more on Alexandra Morton and her research on saving wild salmon.




say no to hst in bc

Write to your Premier and your local MLA if you are not happy with the following:

1. The proposed HST - Harmonized Sales Tax or commonly refered to as "Hated" Sales Tax which transfers tax from businesses to individuals. (See HST section on website for more information)


2. Reverse the cuts to health care, education and other social services.


Things to do to help:

Sign petitions to say no to HST


http://www.saynotohstinbc.ca/

http://www.bcndp.ca/stopHST&adwdisplay2?gclid=CKnUr5HCvp4CFQsYawod-HFlog


Write emails:

Email:
The Honourable Premier Gordon Campbell

Email: The Honourable Ron Cantelon MLA Nanaimo-Parksville Constituency.

Email your MLA, see MLA finder for your area of BC (see list).

Email: Parksville-Qualicum News to submit a letter to the editor.

Email: Oceanside Star to submit a letter to the editor.

Email other papers see media contacts.

Discuss these issues with your friends and neighbours and ask them to email your politicians and newpapers. Let's keep the heat on our politicians on these issues over the winter!




Visitors and new members welcome to our group!


Meetings are held every Thursday 5pm
at Trillium Lodge, Multipurpose Room
401 S. Moilliet
Parksville, B.C.


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