Ten of Vancouver Island's 14 provincial ridings -- and more than half the province's electoral districts -- have now reached the threshold of signing up 10 per cent of the voters' list to the petition to kill the proposed harmonized sales tax.8 O* e1 s; [2 s, n4 s( ?$ N
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On the Island, only the ridings of Victoria-Swan Lake, Oak Bay-Gordon Head, Cowichan Valley and Alberni-Pacific Rim have yet to cross the 10 per cent threshold, though all are within 1,000 signatures -- except Victoria-Swan Lake, which is about 1,900 signatures short.& f0 h7 l, l3 j6 R6 Y3 f
