Pubdate: Thu, 09 Sep 2004
Source: Vancouver Sun (CN BC)
Copyright: 2004 The Vancouver Sun
Contact:  http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/477
Author: Jamie Kelley
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1273/a01.html

VANCOUVER DOESN'T EXIST TO PLEASE AMERICANS

Re: City's open drug culture 'unsettling' to tourists, Sept. 8

Heaven forbid that we have a culture that upsets Americans. Tourism
Vancouver and Vancouver Board of Trade officials tellingly offered no
acknowledgement or sympathy to the suffering and anguish of the
"stoned people walking the streets" of downtown. Just that they are a
blight on the city and "unsettling" to American visitors.

These stewards at the Vancouver Board of Trade were the same bunch who
wrote to the U.S. Congress apologizing for Canada's position on the
war in Iraq.

What is "unsettling" to me is that Vancouver's tourism and business
sectors are represented on the world stage by such toadying,
sycophantic officials.

Jamie Kelley
Vancouver 
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