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Kelvin Gawley commented on How is the Vancouver Olympics Dealing with its Local Drug Problem? on August 28, 2009, 3:43 AM

This demonstrates purely the flawed way of thinking we have here in BC. As if drug addicts and the homeless are posing a problem to the olympics when is quite clearly the exact opposite. Yeah, let's ship them out of town for two weeks so the world doesn't have to face what's being let happen in the name of their party. Our provincial and federal government has spent billions upon billions of dollars building venues, improving roads to venues (sea to sky highway to Whistler). And building high end accomodation for the athletes. A small amount of this money spent on affordable housing for British Columbians suffering and dying in our streets would improve the situation greatly. Liberal drug laws? Although this may be written from the perspective of an American who is used to seeing life sentences for possesion that is still an absurd statement. Although we as British Columbians are used to this sort of article it doesn't make any less insulting. Instead of trying to figure out how to hide those damn addicted natives from the world why not get these Canadians the help they need and stop worrying about a dent in the profits of this party for the rich. Americans like to refer to Canada as a socialist nation but a governement that bends over backwards and hands out to big bussisness while allowing it's citizens to suffer and die in filth and poverty isn't exactly socialism.