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Topic: Western Canada Concept Party of British Columbia

	Western Block Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The aim of the party is to promote the independence of Western Canada (i.e., the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) from the rest of Canada.
		Christie is also the leader of the Western Canada Concept Party of British Columbia, a political party that promotes separation at the provincial political level in British Columbia.
		In the 2006 election, the party ran four candidates, received 1,094 votes, which is 0.0074% of the total votes cast, or 0.46% of the votes in those four electoral districts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_Block_Party (430 words)

	British Columbia Canada -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As of 2004, the population was 4,168,123 (''British Columbians'').
		British Columbia is on the extreme west of Canada, on the Pacific coast.
		The southern border of British Columbia was established by the 1846 Oregon Treaty.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/23/british-columbia-canada.html (1053 words)

	Western Canada Concept Party of British Columbia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Western Canada Concept Party of BC is a provincial political party in British Columbia, Canada.
		It was the British Columbia branch of the Western Canada Concept, a political party that operated at the federal level, advocating the separation of the four western provinces of Canada and the formation of a new country comprising British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
		In the May 5, 1983, British Columbia provincial election, the party nominated 18 candidates.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_Canada_Concept_Party_of_British_Columbia (350 words)

	cric.ca - Canada's Portal - Quick Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Western issues have fallen by the wayside in the federal election campaign as the Liberals deal with the growing likelihood that major inroads in Alberta are a lost cause.
		To Western Canada, the legacy left by the policy consisted of discriminatory freight rates and a resource-based economy that was subject to the boom and bust cycles of the manufacturing and financial sectors of Central Canada.
		British Columbia is Canada’s third-largest and fastest-growing province.
	www.cric.ca /en_html/guide/west/westernalienation.html (1294 words)

	List of political parties in Canada - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		In contrast with the political party systems of many nations, Canadian parties at the federal level are often only loosely connected with parties at the provincial level, despite having similar names.
		Socialist Party of Canada (in Manitoba) 1904-1922, 1932, 1945
		From approximately 1898 to 1905, political parties were active, however, legislative government was eliminated when the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan were created out of the heavily populated area of NWT.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/List_of_political_parties_in_Canada (886 words)

	CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Leaders and Parties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Animal Alliance Environment Voters Party of Canada – The newest of the federal parties, the goal of the AAEV is to put environmental and animal protection issues on the national agenda.
		Green Party of Canada – The party is the largest of the secondary parties, in terms of number of candidates.
		The party became a registered party at the end of May 2004 and is basing its philosophy on the constitution of the previous PC party.
	www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/leadersparties/parties/other.html (879 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page : W/WE/WES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was the British Columbia branch of the Western Canada Concept, a political party that operated at the federal level, advocating the separation of the four western provinces of Canada and the forma..
		It is characterized by sandstones, shales and coal seams.
		The Western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera, is a beetle.
	www.wikien.info /browse.php?title=W/WE/WES (10686 words)

	eG - Ed-Op - Voice: Western alienation an offensive concept
		Few things give Western Canadians as bad a name as does the hateful, opportunistic and greedy concept of “western alienation.” This is a concept championed by certain ultra-right wing zealots in the media and hysterical pseudo-celebrities like Victoria lawyer Doug Christie—founder of the Western Canada Concept.
		Western alienation is the tiresome idea that somehow British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba are unfairly shut out of Canadian policy making; that Ontarians (indeed all Canadians east of Winnipeg) are power-berserk Liberals who plot to keep the West from its rightful place on top of the Canadian food chain.
		If Western Canada’s heritage isn’t one of immigration and multiculturalism, whose is? It should also be pointed out that there are a greater percentage of visible minorities in British Columbia than there are in Ontario.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~gauntlet/eg/ed-op/stories/20001207/voice4.html (610 words)

	Socialism Today - ‘New Politics’ in Canada
		LAST NOVEMBER leaders of Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) received a shock when 37% of delegates at the party’s national convention voted in favour of the New Politics Initiative (NPI), a current of NDP lefts and social activists outside the party who are proposing to replace the NDP with a new left-wing formation.
		At provincial level the NDP is on the verge of losing party status in Ontario (Canada’s largest province), has only two seats in British Columbia’s legislature after squandering two terms in power, clings to government in Saskatchewan (the party’s birthplace) thanks to a rotten coalition with the Liberals, and enjoys relative security only in Manitoba.
		Anti-capitalist policies are slowly being developed in practice, however, as NPI activists attempt to build a party on the ground by participating in broader campaigns, such as defending public healthcare in Ontario and the movement in British Columbia against that province’s right-wing Liberal government.
	www.socialismtoday.org /65/Canada.html (1155 words)

	CONFEDERATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A British Columbia politician and editorialist Amor de Cosmos began promoting a North American union, and a union of the Vancouver Island and Mainland colonies (later to merge into the united colony of British Columbia in November 1866).
		This message demanded that British Columbia be allowed to enter into the Dominion of Canada immediately, under the condition that a transcontinental wagon road from the head of Lake Superior to the Pacific be completed within two years of BC joining.
		British Columbia was now the western most part of a Canada, a country that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /helmcken/people/confed.html (1171 words)

	cric.ca - Canada's Portal - Quick Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At the time, the concept of responsible government was understood as giving the majority party the power to instruct the governor on the running of colonial affairs.
		London’s refusal to accept this concept, and its subsequent decision to allow the governor the use of colonial revenues without the approval of the assembly, drove the Reformers to armed defiance, producing the Rebellions of 1837-38.
		An alliance between the Reformers of Canada West, led by Robert Baldwin, and those of Canada East, led by Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, was key to the establishment of responsible government in the new colony.
	www.cric.ca /en_html/guide/parties/parties.html (1991 words)

	SceneandHeard.ca
		And the legacy of western alienation is this deep and abiding suspicion of the federal government.
		According to Barry, the frustration lies in the belief that the central government is indifferent to the aspirations of western Canada and their function in the national debate.
		The party is devoted to a peaceful secession of the four Western provinces and the two territories from Canada through four referenda held in each respective western province.
	www.sceneandheard.ca /article.php?id=620&morgue=1 (708 words)

	Principles and Goals of the Western Canada Concept
		More debt-free money in Western Canada would be available due to the termination of the fiscal drain of Ottawa to the east and the debt-free money system which reduces substantially the cost of government as well as the cost of living.
		The Western Canada Concept (WCC) is a national political party founded in 1986 by Douglas Christie, who in 1975 initiated the Committee for Western Independence and in 1980 the provincial Western Canada Concept Parties in Alberta, B.C., Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
		Western Canada (until recently predominantly of one culture) is basically a European Christian culture, has about 7 million people who speak one language and a land mass larger than Europe itself.
	www.westcan.org /westcan/principl.htm (2995 words)

	Western Refederation Party of BC
		The concept of refederation refers to an altered relationship between the bureaucracy in Ottawa on the one hand and the provinces on the other hand, and especially the province of British Columbia.
		This party was registered in March 2001 and has spent five years designing a dual policy to lawfully bring about needed fundamental change.
		The objective of all the other parties is to be elected to power in Victoria under the existing political system in order to run the province their way.
	www.refedbc.com (625 words)

	THE CANADIAN ELECTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Westerners for decades have created a broad range of protest parties, and even parties calling for the west to secede from Canada.
		Western Canada’s case is not the same as Quebec.
		Western Canadians are English-speaking and are of the same ethnic stocks as are many people in Ontario and in Atlantic Canada.
	www.ulsternation.org.uk /canadian_election.htm (1617 words)

	Funender.com : View topic - Canada's backlash against the socialist commies in power
		He warns that, at a time when Canada is not facing a major national crisis, this level of dissatisfaction could be a sign of worse things to come.
		Gerald Baier, a University of British Columbia professor of political science, said young people are more likely to support the idea of sovereignty because they are often more open-minded than older generations.
		The Western Canada Concept Party registered with Elections Canada 25 years ago with a platform calling for separation of the four Western provinces, but never came close to electing an MP.
	www.funender.com /phpBB2/about60278.html (714 words)

	Canadian Political Parties/Les Partis politiques du Canada
		Parti Libéral du Canada (Québec)/Liberal Party of Canada (Quebec), PLC(Q)/LPC(Q)
		Parti municipal Rive-Sud - Équipe Gladu, PMRS (Longueuil)
		Parti Municipal Énergie avec Sylvie Surpenant, PME-Surpenant (Ste-Thérèse)
	home.ican.net /~alexng/can.html (770 words)

	An Attack on Freedom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bruce Hutton, leader of the Alberta separatist party, told the Western Standard: "One of the things that makes separation a hard sell is that we have to get people to think of the future, not the present, to sell our message." Despite Western frustration, Mr.
		In the survey, 35.6 per cent of respondents from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia agreed with the statement: Western Canadians should begin to explore the idea of forming their own country.
		The survey was commissioned by the Western Standard, a right-leaning bimonthly news and opinion magazine based in Calgary, to assess how well the federal government has been managing the issue of western alienation - something that Prime Minister Martin promised to reduce as part of his 2004 election campaign.
	www.fathers.ca /an_attack_on_freedom.htm (3712 words)

	Native Americans and the Environment: Canada
		A three year GIS study, the Project "is concerned with examination of the availability of Indigenous land-use information in various forms and identification of appropriate approaches to its use in planning." (1996).
		The Reform Party's goal "is that all aboriginal people be full and equal participants in Canadian citizenship, indistinguishable in law and treatment from other Canadians." I think that means giving up the last of their treaty-secured rights as well.
		The Reform Party is anti-treaty, as they'd be happy to explain to you at their web site.
	www.ncseonline.org /NAE/canada.html (406 words)

	Environmental Politics in the DEMOCRACIES
		Canada (Attorney General) [2002] 1 S.C.R. Section 27 of the Marine Mammal Regulations prohibits the sale, trade or barter of young harp seals and hooded seals, referred to respectively as whitecoats and bluebacks.
		Twenty per cent of British Columbians also named nature conservation as a priority compared with 11 per cent nationally, and BC Hydro received the highest rating of any power utility in Canada for its environmental efforts.
		Western Canada Wilderness Committee - works for the preservation of wilderness areas, and focus public attention on logging practices, biodiversity, and conservation of natural resources.
	psclasses.ucdavis.edu /POL107/week4.html (3346 words)

	Western Refederation Party of BC - Menu
		Of the four options open to western Canada, as outlined here in the last two issues, the first two just don't work.
		This was the western Canada that the negotiators looked upon when they figured out how it would be governed.
		All central Canada need do is stymie the negotiational process and we will have to slump back into the status quo as we always have.
	www.refedbc.com /art_harper.html (1037 words)

	The Fringe Festival of Democracy :: thetyee.ca
		In the late 1860s, British Columbia was the focus of a pro-American annexation movement.
		During this period British Columbia was in the middle of a long recession.
		It was addressed to the Queen and asked either that the British government assume the colony's expenses and debts, and establish a steamer link between the colony and Britain, or that the colony be permitted to join the United States.
	thetyee.ca /Views/2005/03/28/Fringe (1493 words)

	Compendium of Election Administration in Canada
		The Reform Party of Canada asked the Chief Electoral Officer to change the full name of the party to the "Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance" and to change the short form from "Reform" to "Canadian Alliance".
		The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, the Canadian Action Party, and the Rest of Canada Party made submissions to the Chief Electoral Officer highlighting their concerns with respect to the name change application.
		The Parti National Québécois was refused registration because of its similarity with the Parti Québécois.
	www.elections.ca /loi/com2000/Statistics/sta01_e.html (644 words)

	To those who wanted to be kept informed.
		The original group that founded this party had also suffered those same disappointments, and a decision was made early on to state the party's aims and then make it difficult, if not impossible, for "late joining members" to use their vote to steer the party in another direction.
		So the first part of the constitution of the Western Independence Party of BC contains the founding provisions which state the party's intentions, and these are locked-in and unalterable for the protection of all party members who join us in good faith.
		It was, therefore, an honour to be invited to become a founding member of the Western Independence Party of British Columbia with its principles of direct democracy.
	www.republicofalberta.com /WIPBC.htm (7577 words)

	Free Dominion :: View topic - Do you support Western separation?
		Canada is near the point of collapsing as governable socialist entity.
		I was at a meeting of The Western Canada Concept Party at the Jubilee Auditorium during the turmoil and animosity caused by Trudeau and his national energy program.
		The members of the party had paid to rent the auditorium and the meeting was for members only.
	www.freedominion.ca /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=38887&postdays=0&postorder=asc&vote=viewresult (1666 words)

	Alliance \| Advocacy > Campaign for Culture
		For information on voting in a British Columbia provincial election, visit Elections BC, where you can register to vote, find your electoral district, and find your candidates on the general list of candidates (this list is provided by Elections BC.)
		Brief statements from each party are available through Elections BC, along with a list of registered parties and their contact information.
		Most party websites contain links to their election platform, as well as links to find the candidate in your riding.
	www.allianceforarts.com /advocacy/campaign-for-culture.html (858 words)

	Results of 2005 British Columbia, Canada General Election - Wikinews
		Results are still coming in, and no party has won an overall majority in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia yet.
		Held in conjunction with the general election was the British Columbia electoral reform referendum, 2005, where voters were asked to decide whether to switch from the First Past the Post electoral system to the Single Transferable Vote electoral system.
		A 60% Yes vote as well as a simple majority in 48 of the 79 ridings are needed for the measure to pass.
	en.wikinews.org /wiki/Results_of_2005_British_Columbia,_Canada_General_Election (372 words)

	Political Resources on the Net - Canada I
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	www.politicalresources.net /canada/canada.htm (271 words)

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