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Keith comments on new National Park Reserve

VICTORIA – Dr. Keith Martin, MP for Esquimalt – Juan de Fuca commented today on the announcement of a new national park reserve on the East Coast. The governments of Canada and Newfoundland and Labrador have announced the establishment of a new National Park Reserve. The new reserve will protect more than 10,000 square kilometres in Labrador.

“If Newfoundland and Labrador can get this done, then certainly the Province of British Columbia should also be able to protect our west coast,” said Dr. Keith Martin. “Time is of the essence. If we are going to protect these lands we must act now before they are sold to the highest bidder.” (more…)

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CBC’s At Issue Panel

PETER MANSBRIDGE (HOST):

Yeah, the perils of being an opposition leader. Rex, most underrated [politician this year]?
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REX MURPHY (REPORTER):

Peter Stoffer and Keith Martin. There are certain backbenchers who, by virtue of their personality, their tone, they’re civilized people that do a lot to ransom all the other activities on Parliament Hill. Those backbenchers, like the one that Allan mentioned, they do a lot to keep the system in motion. And these two, in my mind, Martin and Stoffer, are fairly equivalent.

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Victoria’s Billion Dollar Boondoggle

SewageBoondoggle

Government is refusing to look at the facts and the science
By Dr. Keith Martin, MP

The rush to choose a sewage treatment site for Victoria before all the facts are available belies a much larger problem. This initiative to spend $1.2 billion to build one or more sewage treatment plants in Victoria is based on myths, fear, perception, and an appalling lack of due diligence on the part of both the federal and provincial governments. It entails the deliberate refusal to listen to the science. Indeed, the facts are being ignored…

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How B.C. can reduce pain from HST

How B.C. can reduce pain from HST

As published in the Times Colonist
September 8, 2009
By: Keith Martin

The announcement that on July 1, 2010, B.C.’s provincial sales tax will be merged with the federal goods and services tax was a bolt out of the blue.

This seven per cent tax increase on everything that was previously exempt from PST was anticipated by no one.
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How B.C. can reduce pain from HST
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The Good, The Bad, and The H.S.T

BC must ensure HST will benefit both consumers and small businesses
by Dr. Keith Martin, MP

The announcement that on July 1, 2010 British Columbia’s provincial sales tax (PST) will be merged with the federal goods and services tax (GST) was a bolt out of the blue. This new Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) will be twelve percent and applied to everything we pay GST on, including those things that were previously exempt from PST.

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Canada’s Biggest Boondoggle

Sewage treatment plans promise to cost billions, yet fix nothing
by Dr. Keith Martin, MP

Victoria is about to be saddled with the biggest boondoggle in Canadian history. The proposal to build a sewage treatment plant that is likely to cost $2 billion or more, is based on myths, fear, and an appalling lack of due diligence on the part of various levels of government.

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We have to save our dying oceans

The following article appeared in the June 8th edition of the Hill Times, in commemoration of World Oceans Day.

Saving our Dying Oceans
By Dr. Keith Martin, MP

Our oceans are dying, and without life in our oceans, life on land will perish. The threats to our marine environment, our global life support system, come` from many sources, but all have one common cause: human activity.
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Town Hall Meeting with Michael Ignatieff

Please join Dr. Keith Martin for a Town Hall Meeting with Liberal Leader, Michael Ignatieff.

Saturday, March 28, 2009
Doors Open at 11:00am

Spectrum School Theatre
957 Burnside Road West

Everyone Welcome

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A well deserved congratulations to our B.C. athletes

As the Official Opposition Critic for Amateur Sport, Health Promotion and the Olympics, I would like to take time today to congratulate the finalists of Sport BC’s 43rd Annual Athlete of the Year Awards.

Each of the finalists for this award deserves recognition for the obstacles that they have overcome, the people they have inspired and the training they have endured. Our British Columbian athletes and coaches are role models in our communities. I am very proud of their accomplishments. (more…)

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Employment Insurance must be fixed

With mounting job losses, one of the best ways to stimulate the economy and get money into the hands of people most in need, is through Employment Insurance (EI). (more…)

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