Proposal to Overhaul the Societies Act

From the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/sandy-garossino/bc-societies-act-christy-clark_b_5973568.html

Christy Clark's Proposed Policy Overhaul Is Breathtakingly Stupid

Sandy Garossino

Business Owner, Community Advocate, former Crown prosecutorSandy Garossino 

B.C.'s Christy Clark government is proposing to overhaul the Societies Act, and they've distributed a snoozer of a White Paper to let you know all about it.

If you've dozed off already, WAKE UP, because there's a massive zinger quietly planted deep inside. You can do something about it -- more on that at the end of this post. But unmentioned in any preamble or executive summary, Section 99 allows any person (including corporations) to take any registered society to court that they believe is acting contrary to the public interest -- whatever that is.

Here it is:

Complaints by public

99 (1) A person whom the court considers to be an appropriate person to make an 
application under this section may apply to the court for an order under this 
section on the grounds that a society

(b) is carrying on activities that are detrimental to the public interest.

This proposal is one of the most ill-conceived and draconian initiatives to see the light of day in a modern democracy, and reveals the extent of Clark's captivity by the oil and gas lobby. (And one more reason B.C. political leaders should be prevented from funding their election campaigns at the Petroleum Club in Calgary).

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/sandy-garossino/bc-societies-act-christy-clark_b_5973568.html

This White Paper is open to comments by the public until the end of day Wednesday, Oct. 15. Email yours to the Financial and Corporate Sector Policy Branch here:fcsp@gov.bc.ca.