Dear Editor:

The B.C. government intends to
disqualify recreational property
owners as well as convicted crimi-
nals from voting in tocal elections
for mayor, councillor, islands
trustee, regional district trustee,
school board trustee and money
bylaws.

The proposals are set out in a
“Discussion Paper,’’ undated,
issued by the Ministry of
Municipal Affairs, Recreation and
Housing.

This paper was distributed only
to officials with municipalities,
islands trust, regional districts and
school boards — with so little
fanfare as to be almost secretive.

The proposal is to disenfran-
chise:

1. criminals serving at least a 10-
year sentence;

2. persons guilty of election of-
fences; and,

3. non-resident property owners
including corporations.

Property owners will be
disenfranchised by change

However, the ministry intends
to give the vote to persons without
any occupation ‘‘who do not have
a fixed address’’ but who ‘do
reside in a communty.””

This proposal means that
owners of recreational property in
Whistler, the Gulf Islands, the
Sunshine Coast, and other recre-
ational property areas throughout
B.C., will have no right to vote in
local elections. They merely pay
property taxes.

This is ‘‘fair, honest and
open,” according to the ministry.

The fundamental probiem is the
ministry’s erroneous view of
“principles of entitlement,” i.e.,
that only resident ‘‘citizens’’ of a
community should have the vote

and that it should not be ‘ta right
accorded by property ownership.”'

Dead wrong!

A local government is not a
general government of people like
the federal and provincial gov-
ernments; it is a government es-
tablished to regulate and provide
services to local property interests
— fairly for the benefit of and in
the interests of ali the property
owners.

All property owners, including
corporations, have the right to
vote. Disenfranchisement by legis-
lation is a scandalous derogation
from property rights.

Clive V. Nylander
Vancouver

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