The Vancouver Island Party
Vancouver Island Party will be deregistered with Elections BC
IMPORTANT NOTICE! December 23, 2020 Dear Friend: Effective December 31, 2020, the Vancouver Island Party will be deregistered with Elections BC. The Council of the Vancouver Island Party Party regrets having to take this action but has no option due to a lack of sufficient support. The next scheduled provincial election is 4 years away. In the interval, there may be a renewal of enthusiasm to have Vancouver Island become a new province – which it overwhelmingly deserves, considering its population as compared to several Atlantic provinces. There may arise a wish to re-register the Vancouver Island Party, create 14 […]
Call for Candidates 2020
The Vancouver Island Party would like to invite you to be a VIP Candidate in the October 24 provincial election. Nomination applications must be duly competed and accepted by the Elections BC District Electoral Officer or Elections BC Victoria headquarters by 1:00 pm on Friday, October 2, 2020. The deposit to Elections BC is $250. The $250 deposit needs to be accompanied by the names, addresses and signatures of at least 75 persons in your riding. We recommend that you submit 100 signatures in case some of them are inadmissible. Signatures must be from persons who are at least 18 […]
Dr. Robin Richardson Ph.D. has resigned as Leader of the Vancouver Island Party
RESIGNATION November 15, 2019 Dr. Robin Richardson Ph.D. has resigned as Leader of the Vancouver Island Party, effective immediately. “I am resigning as VIP Leader in order to spend more time with my family and church, to build up my financial / estate planning and economic consulting businesses and to write my memoir book.” said Dr. Richardson. “I continue to believe that Vancouver Island would be at least 100 times better off as an independent new province of Canada rather than continue as an oft-neglected region of Canada and British Columbia.” “Vancouver Island has 17% of the population of British […]
Invitation to VIP Strategy Meetings 2019
INVITATION You are invited to our monthly STRATEGY meeting of the Vancouver Island Party (VIP) to participate in the preparation of plans getting ready for the next provincial election, now expected in October, 2021. Come and hear VIP Party Leader Dr. Robin Richardson give a report on the January Nanaimo MLA by-election and participate in discussion of the following topics: 1. Organization 2. Policy 3. Messaging 4. Social Media 5. Fundraising 6. Candidate Recruitment May Meeting Our meeting is on Saturday, May 25, 2019 from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm at the new Quality Foods Upstairs boardroom, 110 – 27 […]
VIP Membership Renewal 2019
Dear VIP Supporter, Would you please go to the Membership Renewal page on our VIP website, http://www.vanisleparty.com/renew-membership/, and renew your VIP Membership. It is only an annual $5.00 and is open to anyone from age 13 and older. If you are in a Special Situation, such as unemployed, on social assistance, disabled etc., the annual membership is only $1.00. Please confirm your contact and receipt information is correct and enter a custom donation amount (of which $1 or $5 of the amount will be put towards your annual membership). You may also want to make a donation before Dec. 31 […]
Free Tuition – A New Approach To Student Aid
The Vancouver Island Party (VIP) proposes free tuition for college and university students who have four years prior registry as students in Vancouver Island middle and high schools. The family income cut-off for this policy would be $90,000 or less. The VIP notes that one of the first actions of the new NDP provincial government was to introduce this policy for students from foster homes. We applaud this action. The VIP also notes that the Government of New Brunswick introduced this free tuition policy in 2016 for families of $60,000 or less. If NB, why not BC? The Vancouver Island […]
The Solution To The Oil Trade War
Let’s Import More Refined Oil from Washington State and Build New Oil Refineries In British Columbia Re: “Alberta’s move to cut energy will hit more than B.C. fuel” Dan Healing, The Canadian Press, April 18, 2018, page B1. Victoria, April 18, 2018. The answer to the current and, perhaps, future continuing impasse between British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan lies in two directions: (1) short-term; import more refined oil from Washington State and, (2) longer-term; build more refinery capacity in Vancouver, the Lower Mainland and, perhaps, elsewhere in British Columbia. Import More Refined Oil From Washington State Right now, there is […]
A New Voting System For British Columbia
The Vancouver Isand Party recently posted its recommendation for a Mixed Member System (MMS) of voting for the October 2018 referendum on the Government website. Your comments are most apppreciated. Dr. Robin M. Richardson, Ph.D. Leader The Vancouver Island Party “A New Voting System For British Columbia: Let The BC Regions Matter” by Robin Richardson and Alex Greer, The Vancouver Island Party February 10, 2018 The Vancouver Island Party (VIP), in proposing a mixed First Past The Post (FPTP) and Proportional Representative (PR) system of voting called the Mixed Member Seat (MMS) system for the October 2018 referendum, strongly recommends […]
Guaranteed Annual Income
A Poverty Reduction Strategy For British Columbia: The Guaranteed Annual Income (GAI) Dr. Robin M. Richardson, Ph.D. Leader, The Vancouver Island Party November 27, 2017 On November 27, 2017. VIP Leader Robin Richardson attended the first of a series of poverty reduction workshops sponsored by the NDP government’s Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction. He hand-delivered the following research paper on a Guaranteed Annual Income (GAI) for British Columbia to the Cabinet Minister, the Honourable Shane Simpson. Your comments on this research paper are most welcomed. BC does not need a patchwork of existing and new policies to fight […]
VIP 2018 Party Council Meetings
Please record the following dates for VIP Party Council monthly meetings for 2018. We have moved to bi-monthly Thursday evening meetings in Victoria and Saturday in Nanaimo for member convenience and in order to increase attendance.. Everyone who supports the VIP is welcome to attend. This year, we will repeat the Agenda in both Victoria and Nanaimo sequential meetings. Victoria supporters need not attend the next Nanaimo meeting unless they wish to. Likewise, UpIsland supporters need not attend the next Victoria meeting unless they wish to. Victoria VIP supporters may have relatives or friends living north of the Malahat that […]