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Brian Palmquist's avatar

Folks, turns out I made a factual error in this City Conversation #157—Council made an unexplained change to procedure and are allowing 5 minute presentations and Councillors to ask ?’s. I don’t know if this is a onetime “last public hearing ever” thing, but I did make a mistake and am amending the post. My sentiment has not changed. Regards, Brian

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Michael Banwell's avatar

The council is committing a CRIME against the citizens of Vancouver, how can we thank them when the public at large has given them the authority to do so!

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Brian Palmquist's avatar

Thanks for your thoughts. Turns out I made a factual error in my City Conversation—Council made an unexplained change to procedure and are allowing 5 minute presentations and Councillors to ask ?’s. I don’t know if this is a onetime “last public hearing ever” thing, but I did make a mistake and am amending the post. My sentiment has not changed. Regards, Brian

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D. M. Johnston's avatar

When we have a "bought" government of claques and a bureaucracy filled with subservient "peter principle" types, kept in power by an "echo-chamber" media and elected by those who listen to "paid for" influences instead of personal research, the results are what they are.

Metro Vancouver is microcosm of the American MAGA politic, where insatiable greed combined with the worship of wealth is now seeing the downfall of democracy in the once mighty USA. Metro Vancouver will soon follow, as our criminally myopic politicians squander billions of the peoples money to support billions of dollars of profit for their developer/corporate friends.

Abetted by an equally corrupted Vision(less) Vancouver Provincial Party, masquerading as NDP are paving the way to the road of decline and destruction.

The population has two choices either be subservient to their politcal masters, who are subservient to off-shore masters or take the law into their own hands and "man the barricades", and show the politcal overseers that Canadians still have the spirit of "Vimy".

Politics in Metro Vancouver has come to this.

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Kread's avatar

sad that citizens would have to resort to this. but I agree, it would be very effective and would garner some news clippings

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