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Hunting foes target voters in bid to force referendum

1996-11-16
Times Colonist, Victoria, BC

by Malcolm Curtis

� Organizers of the Ban Bear Hunting Initiative say they will have canvassers outside 53 of 57 polling stations in Greater Victoria on voting day, in a bid to gather more than 20,000 signatures.

�We are quite shy of our goal,� says Liora Freedman of WCWC� As of Tuesday, the group said it had collected fewer than 3,000 signatures from the 7 provincial ridings around Victoria.

�That�s misleading,� said Freedman, noting that many canvassers have collected more signatures, but have not yet mailed them in�

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