There’s a political risk in leading the world in civic sensitivity to the drug community with projects like “safe injection sites”.
Your “base” ends up too stoned to vote.
There’s a political risk in leading the world in civic sensitivity to the drug community with projects like “safe injection sites”.
Your “base” ends up too stoned to vote.
COPE wanted to block off two lanes on the Burrard Street Bridge for bicycle only traffic. Every time I’ve driven over that bridge in the summer I’d see a half dozen bikes at the most, this time of year maybe one. I’m sure glad that the COPE solution to traffic problems has been iced by this election.
Speaking of which, my girlfriend forced me the other day to watch Davinci, City Hall on the Mother Ship. And aside from the fact that the camera work, dialogue, costuming and acting are sub-standard and unbearable, the entire episode was about “mayor” Davinci underhandedly attempting to thwart the police in enforcing the law all because he wants to “win” his ideological battle over the drug zone.
Pravda would be proud! The Mother Ship wields its weapons of the dark side.
Well, Da Vinci is based on moonbat idiot Senator / former mayor Larry Campbell, so….
Vancouver had to swing right or drop off the coast altogether. What killed the left was the stupid injection sites. Drug deaths, crime and dealing has skyrocketed since the ‘four pillars’ were introduced. Add to that the idea being floating of a red light district to protect the girls/trannies, and most people just screamed enough! And really, after seeing the horrid Larry Campbell bound for the Rogues Gallery after the mess he’s made here, well, we needed an Attila but settled for Sam.
Sooner or later all of Canada will wake up and realize that “liberalism” is a foolish thing and vote accordingly. Vancouver was a warmup.
“Drug deaths, crime and dealing has skyrocketed since the ‘four pillars’ were introduced. ”
Any link to back up this claim?
Crime, crime crime – living here that is the issue. Most of the crime is drug related – so get tough on drugs.
Larry Campbell/Cope et al were soft on crime, soft on criminals.
Thhat is why the COPE nutjob moonbats are gone – they are pro criminal/anti hard working ordinary citizen.
Gawd I hate socialism . . thank goodnes we got rid of them here . .
Bring on WalMart !!
Calling them moonbats implies that these people are crazy and stupid – but they are no such thing. Turning their city into a wasteland of drugs, crime and prostitution is a tremendously lucrative gig for left-wing folk. We’re talking government jobs-o-plenty as drug councillors, parole officers, foster parents, social workers, writing academic “studies” to supplement one’s teaching job (and which oddly enough invariably call for more government intervention), teachers, cops, legal-aid lawyers, poverty advocates, public housing managers, and so on.
The more f—ed up they make their cities, the better it gets for all the little socialists and their buddies.
Woo hoo!
Exactly Justzumgai. If social workers did their job, would we need any?
Peter, one of the local tvs interviewed a street cop the other day, plus some small business owners who are directly affected by the dealers and crime. And of course, there was some bad heroin that killed 10 people last month, and that was all over the news.
Regarding crime rates, I got this from Wikipedia:
Vancouver was reported in 2004 to have the third-highest crime rate in Canada. The same report noted that Vancouver’s violent-crime rate was low but its property-crime rate (partially a consequence of drug addiction centred in the Downtown Eastside) was second only to Tampa, Florida in North America. One of the most common property crimes in the Vancouver area is automobile break-in; thus visitors are advised to conceal all items left in their car, and to use auto-theft protection devices.
When your property crime is the 2nd worst on the continent, that’s pretty messed up.
I agree, HC. But to the social engineers who get all warm and fuzzy at the thought of putting these junkies under the microscope to manipulate behaviour, and rely on federal grants to stay afloat, hell, what’s a little property crime in somebody else’s back yard? The meth/crack/coke heads and junkies in my neck of the woods just laugh at these injection sites. They can get better stuff on the streets, and they don’t care what they have to do to get it.
I’m not sure what you guys are talking about. Sam Sullivan was one of the biggest supporters of the Safe Injection Sites, and is actually going to expand the prescription heroin Naoimi program.
In this election, the left was lead by a developer while the right was lead by a harm reduction advocate.
You guys got the elections wrong, Jennifer Clark did not run in this election.