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Originally Posted by Changing City
Gregor Robertson was mayor when the party he was a member of, Vision Vancouver, also had a majority of councillors. It was much easier to decide (off camera, in caucus) on a course of action, and then vote for it in Council. From your 'horrible job' comment you didn't appreciate the decisions they made. Kennedy Stewart is an independent - he doesn't have a party, or a caucus, and he's reliant on a majority of the rest of Council to support anything he suggests. Sometimes they do, and sometimes (like trying 6-plex homes as an experiment to get more affordable homes), they don't. No party has a majority, and it appears that neither the NPA or the Green Party members have a caucus with an agreed party line, so every vote, on every topic, is unpredictable. It's not surprising that not every initiative goes forward.
When the topic is people camping in parks, what the mayor, or councillors think doesn't matter anyway. The elected Parks Board control parks. They're the ones who decided not to get an injunction to try to remove the camp. They rejected an offer from Council to get involved with Oppenheim Park camp. In that situation the mayor and Council have no way of intervening. Don't blame the mayor, or his administration for things thay have no jurisdiction over.
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Thanks for your comment. I think you just admitted to the failure of the system in the City of Vancouver. It may or may not be a leader's failure, but it certainly is a collective failure of this City. Everyone you mentioned is like a lame duck, or people not doing anything but waiting to retire so as to collect a huge retirement paycheque. If the mayor cannot intervene on Oppenheimer or Strathcona Park camp, who can? Also, what do you propose should change to make all the nonsense in the City go away? Any suggestions? If the administration cannot do anything positive for this City, what can the people do?
You should also ask yourself this: If a mayor is ineffective in office, then what is the point of having one? Perhaps a recall is in order.
More money going down the drain to encourage lawlessness in this City. Instead of beefing up enforcement, the City and other governments keep providing SROs, or decent buildings that will turn into ghettos in a few months. So much for initiatives for such a large sum of money to be spent. Is the City coming up with conditions for people to live in those places? Will they be given jobs and made to quit their addictions? What sort of plans do the different levels of government have to make this group of people become productive citizens once again? I fear this is another useless move to sweep the dust under the carpet.
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Originally Posted by s211
Am I the only person that sees irony in the phrase "social justice warriors", when in fact they're defending the most anti-societal of behaviours?
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No kidding! I term them as "the enablers".
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