Just like the dam HST ,sneak it in ,screw the little guy

This supposed fee hike is nothing more than a blatant cash grab by private industry working in collusion with provincial government.

This proposed fee hike will do nothing more than ruin small scale miners and hobbyists in favor of large corporations. Please help protect the rights of the citizens to fair and equal access to provincial lands.

Private Enterprise needs to keep their hands out of th decision making process We were given the right to vote for a reason.

lies and more theivery from our 'beloved' gov't .. heres hoping they can be stopped. they have already crippled small towns like mine through lies, stealing our railroads, our hospitals, our schools,

This is going to go along way in killing the small scale miner. This must stop immediately.

Enough of the fat cat big companies getting all the breaks while the real people get stepped on. If a huge mine wants to go in the big companies just grease the right wheels and it goes through while the real people are forced out. We, the real people pay the government enough taxes and fees as it is. NO NEW FEES AND TAXES. We all vote and next time we will vote you OUT.

I have just contemplated returning to this industry as a prospector. I am disgusted to find that the Liberal Government and the AME have colluded to try and force the the small time operators and prospectors out of business and the Majors hair.
Over the Last couple of years ,this type of shenanigan is what is expected of the Liberals but the AME? in the Past the Chamber of Mines was set up to help, encourage, educate and advocate for the prospectors and small time operators. The majors recognised that this would favour them as eventually they would be involved. I am totally disgusted with them. They have betrayed their very heritage and us.
Perhaps it's time to form another Chamber of Mines.

Our right to gold pan in BC should continue to be affordable for all. It is our land. Not the governments. Not the queen's. OURS. I've thought long about applying for a placer claim, not as a career, but for a hobby. Spending time outdoors gold panning sounds like a blast and sure beats sitting on the couch and watching tv. There is no reason to increase the prices. If they were concerned about lack of money, they would allow people to stake more claims. There is a ton of land out there that is restricted. Open our land up and let us mine it. That will improve the economy. If more claims were available, people would buy more claims. People would buy mining products from BC businesses. People would travel to their claims often. People would go to businesses near/onway to their claims. etc. Think of the bigger impact!

All the Gold and Silver is God's. I am a free man and as such look to God's guidance in regards to prospecting and mining. The native Indians kept themselves sovereign and still have access to much we do not. Does the government have any right to this at all? No Fees.

This HST will ruin the little people and buisness.

What... The HST, BC Rail and now this!
Get these clowns behind bars as fast as possible, The small guy is getting fleeced in this province ...ROYALY! This individual and his party must never be relected in this province again. He is bankrupting all of us. Enough already!

Another nail in the coffin for the career of the right dispicable gordo cambell and the liberal party. They won't get elected in B.C. ever again.

No new "Fees"

No new taxes.

Did your family ever go out in the woods, or go fishing with your family? They didn't tax the crap out of it for you then, so why are you guys trying to put the screws to us for the same thing you might enjoy with the family? If you havn't ever did anything with the family, maybe it is time for you to get with nature...

I just wanted to say as a 29yr old NB'er on the east coast who recently purchased a placer claim in BC, I did it as part of a dream to lure me to BC someday, a reason to keep going back, a minimal investment in a province facing an ever ongoing real estate boom. Panning for gold is a hobby surrounded by the peacefullness of nature, it's not a multi-miliion dollar industry for the little man with a shovel, pick axe & a pan to be taxed ever so much more for the hobby they love.. It's about turning personal dreams, goals, and effort into a reality....Chris McMahon, Sackville New-Brunswick Canada.

Mr Gordon Campbell,
As a small time business person who went broke a couple of years ago in the forest industry this new levies are going to be the breaking block for more, you may not remember me , I met you and Mike Dejong at the Beetle symposium in Quesnel in 2005 I believe it was, I was representing the Cariboo Small Scale Harvesters Assoc.
Anyways my thoughts on this is that rather then adding new fees right now and turning the AMCBC loose to be paid monitors of the program is only buying into having big business run the prospecting and placer mining which they have no interest in doing so, placer mining is a small mans game and could be a viable industry here in the Cariboo as well as other areas in the province if let be, so maybe have you MEMPR take a serious look at the potentials of placer mining before making it impossible for the grass roots people of the heartland to make a living........Eric Greywolf Brigden

Give a little guy a break. Quit taxing us to death, and making it too expensive for a person to enjoy their spare time HOBBY. Maybe if someone has a larger number of claims, like maybe more than 3 or 4, then you can see he is getting more serious. Charge him a greater persentage for every claim over his original 3 or 4 HOBBY claims.

I am against any fee hike, re-regulation, privatization of public resources and access

This email constitutes my signature of the petition to stop the proposed fee hike.