From the it couldn't happen to a more worthy guy department:

The Globe and Mail reports in Anti-HST campaign grows in strength that petitioners operating under B.C.'s citizen driven initiative laws have almost completed gathering sufficient signatures - with plenty of time remaining before the deadline - to force the B.C. government's hand if they go ahead with the roll out of the Harmonized Sales Tax as planned for June 1. See where your riding stands at the Fight HST campaign progress report page.

You can feel it in the streets here, public anger goes far beyond the HST itself. This issue, like the campaign to oust David Emerson back in 2006, has touched people in B.C. in a way that defies party lines. So many are angry not just at the HST but at the underhanded, undemocratic, way in which it came to be this government's leading priority, immediately after an election during which it was discussed not once.

In this regard Campbell took a page from Stephen Harper's book of tricks. During the 2008 election, which by Harper's own fixed election date law should never have been called, Harper and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty repeatedly said that Canada would not go into deficit spending. A couple weeks after the election, both announced that of course, Canada would be digging the country deeper into debt through significant deficit spending. Conservatives will argue that the circumstances forced a change in direction, but nothing could be further from the truth, as data from the Ministry of Finance clearly showed (when released after the election) that the Harper government had already pushed Canada deep into deficit spending at a rate never before seen in the prior decade, before the election call of 2008.

Campbell, like Harper, was willing to lie by omission. Hiding significant material facts or plans from the public in order to win votes and grab power is no different than lying through your teeth to buy votes.

Were Campbell and Harper regulated like the national securities regulator that federal finance Minister Flaherty is about to push onto the provinces, both would be in gross violation of securities (electoral) law for not disclosing these material facts to investors (voters).

Why do we insist upon one standard of ethics for corporations, but settle for a much looser set of ethics and morals out of our politicians?

Gordon Campbell has painted himself into a corner from which he cannot escape. He can't back down, without giving those who oppose him or the GST a very public victory. Pushing ahead with the HST despite the citizen-driven initiative will further weaken his support in the province and will be a big factor in fuelling to completion what will probably be the very first successful MLA recall campaigns in this country's history. Given the ease with which some ridings were able to achieve the necessary numbers for the HST petition, with plenty of margin for safety, it would not be hard to envision a great many Liberal MLA's being forced to resign and run again in by-elections. That would be a great moment in the history of Canada's democracy.

Fight the HST.

And then we must make B.C.'s recall legislation work for the very first time by forcing the resignation of Premier Gordon Campbell, Finance Minister Colin Hansen, and recalling any other member of the B.C. legislature who continues to stand up for the HST given the duplicitous manner in which it was introduced.