August 20, 2010

B.C.’s 700,000-signature anti-HST petition will be allowed to proceed, a B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled Friday morning in Vancouver.

Chief Justice Robert Bauman said in his decision that Premier Gordon Campbell himself called the petition against the harmonized sales tax a success for democracy and it would be denying petitioners the fruits of that victory to deny them the right to proceed.

Bauman asked B.C.’s chief electoral officer to forward the petition to the legislature, where a committee will now have to either send it directly to the house for a vote or hold a non-binding provincial vote sometime next year.

[CBC.ca]