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		<title>HST interview on CBC News Now</title>
		<link>http://blog.gokeith.ca/2009/12/hst-interview-on-cbc-news-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keith speaking with Carole MacNeil on CBC News Now about how he will vote on the HST. &#160;&#160; Send article as PDF to Share this.... Hide Sites $$('div.d715').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });]]></description>
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		<title>Victoria&#8217;s Billion Dollar Boondoggle</title>
		<link>http://blog.gokeith.ca/2009/12/victorias-billion-dollar-boondoggle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Government is refusing to look at the facts and the science By Dr. Keith Martin, MP The rush to choose a sewage treatment site for Victoria before all the facts are available belies a much larger problem. This initiative to spend $1.2 billion to build one or more sewage treatment plants in Victoria is based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keith talks HST on CBCs The House</title>
		<link>http://blog.gokeith.ca/2009/12/keith-talks-hst-on-cbcs-the-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In the Media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keith spoke with Kathleen Petty about the HST on CBC Radio&#8217;s &#8220;The House&#8221; this past weekend. &#160;&#160; Send article as PDF to Share this.... Hide Sites $$('div.d708').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });]]></description>
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		<title>Keith&#8217;s HST Article in the Sooke News Mirror</title>
		<link>http://blog.gokeith.ca/2009/12/keiths-hst-article-in-the-sooke-news-mirror/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gokeith.ca/2009/12/keiths-hst-article-in-the-sooke-news-mirror/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keith&#8217;s HST Article in the Sooke News MirrorThe following editorial appeared in the Sooke News Mirror this week. A way forward to fix the HST By Dr. Keith Martin, MP As the provincial and federal governments introduce their legislation to implement the HST, it would be wise to look at a number of measures that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keith on CBC Power and Politics</title>
		<link>http://blog.gokeith.ca/2009/12/keith-on-cbc-power-and-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In the Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs and the Economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Dr. Keith Martin spoke about his opposition to the HST in British Columbia while on Power and Politics on CBC. &#160;&#160; Send article as PDF to Share this.... Hide Sites $$('div.d704').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });]]></description>
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		<title>Keith speaking about the HST on CFAX</title>
		<link>http://blog.gokeith.ca/2009/12/keith-speaking-about-the-hst-on-cfax/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gokeith.ca/2009/12/keith-speaking-about-the-hst-on-cfax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jobs and the Economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Keith Martin speaking with CFAX&#8217;s Murray Langdon about the effects of the HST on British Columbians. &#160;&#160; Send article as PDF to Share this.... Hide Sites $$('div.d701').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });]]></description>
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		<title>Keith on Powerplay talking about the HST</title>
		<link>http://blog.gokeith.ca/2009/11/keith-on-powerplay-talking-about-the-hst/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gokeith.ca/2009/11/keith-on-powerplay-talking-about-the-hst/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jobs and the Economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpts from Keith speaking with Tom Clark on CTV&#8217;s Powerplay on how the HST will affect British Columbia. &#160;&#160; Send article as PDF to Share this.... Hide Sites $$('div.d683').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });]]></description>
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		<title>Saving our Salmon</title>
		<link>http://blog.gokeith.ca/2009/11/saving-our-salmon/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gokeith.ca/2009/11/saving-our-salmon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs and the Economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Urgent action is needed to prevent the collapse of the pacific salmon By Dr. Keith Martin, MP The collapse of cod stocks off the East Coast should have been the proverbial canary in a coalmine for us here in British Columbia, but apparently it hasn&#8217;t been. Declining salmon stocks are extremely worrisome. There are a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How B.C. can reduce pain from HST</title>
		<link>http://blog.gokeith.ca/2009/09/how-bc-can-reduce-pain-from-hst/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gokeith.ca/2009/09/how-bc-can-reduce-pain-from-hst/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How B.C. can reduce pain from HSTAs published in the Times Colonist September 8, 2009 By: Keith Martin The announcement that on July 1, 2010, B.C.&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can the HST’s Negative Effects be Mitigated?</title>
		<link>http://blog.gokeith.ca/2009/09/can-the-hst%e2%80%99s-negative-effects-be-mitigated/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gokeith.ca/2009/09/can-the-hst%e2%80%99s-negative-effects-be-mitigated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jobs and the Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The announcement that on July 1, 2010, BC’s provincial sales tax (PST) will be merged with the federal goods and services tax (GST), was a bolt out of the blue. This 7% tax increase on everything that was previously exempt from PST was anticipated by no one. A partial list of the goods and services [...]]]></description>
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