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Casting your e-vote The lineups weren’t very long at polling stations in the District of North Vancouver during the last municipal election. Only 16 per cent of eligible voters (9,973) came out to vote for mayor, council and school board trustees in 2008. In the City of North Vancouver, the 2008 vote-casting numbers were equally dismal: just a 17 per cent turnout. Of course, it didn’t help that both municipalities lacked the voting night drama of a nail-biting race for mayor, with incumbents Richard Walton and Darrell Mussatto both running unopposed. There was also a dearth of any hot-button issues that had residents seething and lining up for the opportunity to exercise their democratic right. “There needs to be one or more controversial issues in the community or a mayor’s race as well,” concedes Walton, the two-term district mayor, when asked about low voter turnout. Still, historically, even with closely contested races for mayor or council and a controversial tower project or two, the numbers for municipal votes have been anemic. That’s a bit surprising given that no other level of government impacts voters more directly: taxes, potholes, rec centres, playing fields — to name a few. That low turnout , the average is around 35 per cent for municipal votes in the province, is why at last week’s Union of B.C. Municipalities annual summit members voted in favour of introducing online voting in municipal elections, a move that would require provincial legislative change. “Surprised and frustrated” with low voter turnout, CNV Mayor Darrell Mussatto says he backs the idea of e-voting, not to replace traditional polling booths but to supplement in-person voting. “Anything we can do to increase turnout at election time is a good thing.” With voter turnout declining in her municipality, Mayor Pamela Goldsmith-Jones agreed. “[Online voting] is a way to engage people and get people to pay attention.” While there was some concern raised at the UBCM about the potential for voter fraud if an electronic system was adopted, e-voting has actually been used at a municipal level in Canada since 2003 with positive success and no cases of vote tampering. The reality is we live in a fast-evolving electronic age and we’ve come to rely on the convenience of banking, shopping and communicating online. So why not voting too? Especially if it encourages more people to exercise their democratic right. As well as engaging younger voters, e-voting would also make it easier for the elderly and shut-ins to cast their ballots. At the UBCM conference, the B.C. government committed to investigating the possibility of adopting online voting, possibly as soon as 2014. Until then we’ll have to hope for a good old-fashioned race for mayor to get the voters out on Nov. 19. —The Outlook
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B With the game-winning, Game 7 overtime goal against Chicago still ringing in his ears, Vancouver Canucks’ Alex Burrows, left, and teammate Maxim Lapierre are ready to lace ‘em up and spring back into action. CPretty Genevieve Calamo scores one for the girls as she gets an autograph from one of her favourite Canucks, Mason Raymond. D The gang from Fan Zoo Memorabilia are ready to root for the home team again in 2011-2012 as they send their best for another great Canucks season. EWe’re
counting on ginger-haired goaltender Cory Schneider to generate even more excitement between the pipes this year as he again backstops with teammate Roberto Luongo. F Luke Emri and his dad Bob are among the lucky few who now have an authentic autographed Vancouver Canucks jersey. G It’s a boys’ night out for sure as dad Jason Soprovich waits for Canuck player autographs with sons Cole, right, Chase, centre, and friend Cole Shepard. H I’m hoping these Hollyburn hockey players will save me
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Nations governments are working with municipalities to wrestle with the problem of providing fair and financially solvent government under a two-tiered system of taxation and representation. “In Pemberton’s SLRD [Squamish-Lillooet Regional District], you have a population of 3,800 in the electoral area who vote on all sorts of issues,” Nixon says. “Three thousand of those people are First Nations — they don’t pay any fees or taxes at this time to the electoral area and yet they have the voting majority.” More than just a problem for non-band members and municipal governments, it’s a problem for band members and their councils too, says LMTAC. “The fact that all of the 80 First Nations across Canada (54 of them in British Columbia) that have assumed taxing powers have exempted their own members from these taxes further compounds the situation,” LMTAC wrote in a 2003 paper subtitled Considering Rights of Representation for NonMember Residents in First Nation Jurisdictions. “In addition to the issue of taxation without representation [for non-members], the choice to exempt band members invokes representation without taxation. These conditions combine to reduce the accountability of First Nations governments both to their taxpayers and to their nonmembers.” From the district’s perspective, Coun. Bassam says the municipality simply can’t afford to keep the terms of the old service agreement with the TsleilWaututh Nation, especially since the growth of the band’s new Raven Woods housing development in the Deep Cove-Seymour area. “Because they’ve built up the Raven Woods and they have these people living there and we’re providing them with water, sewers and basic services, that obviously increases dramatically as you build out these condos and put all these people there,” Bassam says. “We have to fix that relationship. We simply can’t afford to keep providing services for 75 cents on the dollar. We can’t do it. Right now we’re at the point of telling our residents, ‘We’re increasing your taxes or we’re cutting your services.’ So how can we then justify subsidizing somebody else — some other government?” And with the Tsleil-Waututh Nation now in the final stages of pursuing treaty status on the Raven Woods land, Nixon worries that with only 400 Tsleil-Waututh band members at Raven Woods compared with 1,200 non-member residents, the balance of voters versus taxpayers could become too skewed for either the band or district governments to sustain in good faith or good finance. continued, PAGE 13
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In all, more than 40 rescuers including RCMP, Metro Vancouver parks workers, North Shore Rescue members and other volunteers were involved in the search for the two men at a cost that Jones conservatively put in the “several thousands of dollars” for the helicopter rentals alone. But, the twin chopper approach paid off as, on one run up the valley, a helicopter rescue team spotted the climbers descending a rock face. “They gave our guys the thumbs-up to say they were okay but we knew they weren’t on the right route and were still in danger from falling rocks and it was slippery so we had one helicopter loiter around,” Jones said. “We were afraid that if we dropped down to rescue them right then that the helicopter would trigger a rockfall,” he added. As the chopper hung back, rocks did fall, one boulder snapping the men’s climbing rope just as they prepared to scale down another face. Retooling their gear, the men were able to continue their descent. “We’re not talking about a recreational hike here,” Jones said. “It’s a technical climb.” By 4:30 p.m., the men had reached a spot under a clearing in the cloud cover that allowed the helicopter team to dangle a rescuer down on a long line and pluck the two climbers up and away to safety. “In a way they really forced our hand to come and get them,” Jones said. “They said they weren’t lost but that it was just a timemanagement issue but the problem is it’s a time-management issue in a remote setting where because you can’t communicate and because they were off-route, we had to launch a rescue. From a public due-diligence standpoint what would the public expect? You guys would expect us to do something.”
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from PAGE 11 “This is one of the big issues that faced Tsawwassen [when they attained treaty status in 2009] because they have a big non-member population too on First Nations land now,” says Nixon. “They have no vote so those non-members have effectively been disenfranchised now through the creation of the Tsawwassen First Nation and there is good concern about it.” Similarly, in the City of North Vancouver and West Vancouver where the Squamish Nation has reserve lands, the picture is the same. Recent development proposals have included high-rise waterfront housing in Ambleside for as many as 12,000 new residents, as well as new residential developments around the Lions Gate Bridge, the Capilano River and Park Royal Shopping Centre. A New Deal? Like North Vancouver district, West Vancouver and North Vancouver city have agreements with the Squamish Nation to pay back about 75 per cent of the municipalities’ costs for services used by the reserves. But both North Vancouver city mayor Darrell Mussatto and West Vancouver chief administrative officer Brent Leigh say the terms of those agreements will likely have to change when major residential developments are pursued. “Proportional representation is a key issue that needs to be understood here,” Leigh says. “If some time in the next decade there’s going to be new development under the new legislation and should those [newcomers] want to have the right to influence the direction on those lands, there will have to be some kind of new governance mechanism to answer that.” Luckily, the issue is still in the pre-problem phase for the North Shore, but some possible solutions are already being floated by B.C. municipalities and First Nations governments. At the extremes, those solutions involve the outright privatization of band lands, making them “members only” communities, or the abandonment
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of the reserve system altogether — with neither option seeming likely nor desirable. There is perhaps a “third way,” as suggested by LMTAC but not yet endorsed by any Metro municipality or First Nation: a division between band government and public government on First Nations land. “If the aboriginal rights of self-government extend only to matters of inherently aboriginal content, such as culture, education and public services that require special aboriginal adaptations such as child welfare,” LMTAC suggests, “then one can achieve aboriginal self-government and shared public government with no compromise to the rights of non-aboriginal residents.” While carving up further the already split-hair territorial governments of the North Shore may seem like an unnecessary compounding of the current divides, it may eventually prove necessary to accommodate everyone; from the First Nations, the municipalities and all those who are coming to the North Shore but aren’t here yet.
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ity of North Vancouver residents will see an increase in utility rates next year after council approved boosts to water and sewage fees at Monday night’s meeting. Beginning in January, residential customers will pay a flat rate of $331 per year for water, up from $283 last year. Duplexes will pay $277, up from $260, and multi-unit dwellings will pay $193, up from $187. Sewer flat rates for single unit homes will jump to $270 from $258, two-unit homes to $250 from $248, and multi-unit dwelling will pay $169, an increase from $166. A 10-per-cent discount will apply to those who pay early. An increase in drainage, solid waste and recycling fees will be considered in the spring. City staff are recommending a jump from $68.50 - $72 for drainage and a $4 increase in garbage collection per single-unit home, from $132 - $136. Proposed recycling fees will be $124, up from $120, and $69.50 for yard trimmings, up from $66. The city’s eco levy initiative, which funds onstreet garbage and recycling programs, will jump to $36 from $32 for single unit homes, while multi-unit residences will pay $19, $2 more than in 2011. In total, a single-unit residence will pay an increase of $73 for garbage, recycling, water, sanitary and storm sewer services in 2012. For more, visit cnv.org. A complete list of factors involved in utility cost is available in the Oct. 3 council agenda. —Sean Kolenko
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Includes a Classic Room & Brewmaster Dinner for Two Smile Cookies are gone, but the smiles theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve left in our community will last forever. Thanks to your support, Tim Hortons will be donating the entire proceeds to BC Children's Hospital Foundation.
Š Tim Hortons, 2009
For Reservations please call 360-318-2000 or 800-770-7992
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CVING *Tax, gratuity and resort fee not included. Management reserves all rights. Must be 21 or older to attend. All prices in U.S. Dollars.
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