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Qs from readers: Where was LaPointe on CP before? Why not advertise Vision tearing down viaducts? More

November 14th, 2014 · 4 Comments

I’ve been getting a lot of City Plumber questions recently that aren’t really questions, but more like opinions, so I thought I’d just put them up as is. If anyone has any answers, feel free to weigh in.

How can Kirk Lapoint be sending out letters to Kitsilano voters telling them that he will negotiate in good faith with CP Rail?  I sent him an invite to the summer garden party – organized to give people a chance to reflect on and discuss the value of this space to our communities –  that happened while the City of Vancouver was negotiating with CP Rail – NPA’s Lapoint did not show up or make comment.  David Eby came out and talked seriously with gardeners.

Why is it Left moving away Robertson?Instead of The mean Conservative right bullying their way into Vancouver?That’s what you will see right across the Country…Big Conservative dollars,probably even paying for Court for all their nasty ways!

Why is there no “Vision will tear down the viaducts you are driving on” signage visible to all the commuter traffic and so close to the voting date?

One of the reasons Gregor Robertson beat Raymond Louie to run as Vision’s mayoral candidate three elections ago was by promising to shift some of the commercial property tax burden onto the residential property tax. This gained him the support of much of the business community. Home ownership became more expensive and everyone I know who rents had a significant rental  increase during Gregor’s first term. This made housing less affordable. Yet Vision has the audacity to make affordability one their central issues this election cycle. Why has the mayor’s property tax increase been forgotten? Why doesn’t someone publicly ask him to reverse this tax shift from the wealthy onto the commons?

Have any of the mayoral candidates addressed the E Coli & contamination problems in False creek?

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  • deAuxerre

    “Eby talked seriously with gardeners.” Rather an easy achievement to put on the face of concerned-NDP, finger-pointing, blame-game. Any follow-up? Other than writing an open letter to CP, broadcasting that widely, which gets the results he needs, but getting none on the issue. No. Talk is cheap when one has zero influence. Zero.

  • stuckinthemud

    Silence of the media lambs, not one major media outlet reported any of this..

    http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.com/2014/11/625000-litres-of-toxic-crud-spilled-in.html

    For shame on all of you…A major election issue is fracking, oil and pipelines

  • Dan Cooper

    So, with everything counted but the mail ballots, it looks like Vision has held onto a majority of Mayor and Council, though the NPA picked up a seat, and both the NPA and Carr(*) went from the bottom of the successful list last time to the top of it now. Question: Will Vision be capable of taking the hint and changing their ways, or are they too firmly fixed in their domination obsession? I guess we shall see.

    Interesting thing one: Not at all surprisingly to me, One City Vancouver turned out to be an absolute dud. In the last election, Aquino came in well out of the running and behind two other COPEsters including Tim Louis; this time he came in well out of the running and behind two COPEsters including Tim Louis. No matter how much the Visionistas and their Big Union supporters may want to bring back the good old days of keeping a pet “left wing” party on a leash to direct voters to Vision, that ship has sailed forever.

    Interesting thing two: Apparently, the silent majority Vision claimed to be supporting its threat-heavy attempt to destroy the Community Associations was also non-existent. So long Vision dominated Park Board.

    Interesting thing three: If the Greens are going to become the main opposition party in Vancouver, as I seem to remember Frances hypothesizing, they are going to have not just be the (*)’Everyone Loves Adriane Carr…But No One Else On Her Slate Party’ on Council and just scrape two or three people onto the other boards at the bottom of the lists. Personally, I don’t see it happening.

    Happy thing: Vancouver 1st, a.k.a. the “We aren’t transphobic, we just don’t want ourselves or our children to be around those scary, dangerous people Party,” went down to ignominious defeat. Again, so much for their claims of a silent majority on their side; in fact, they have nothing but a relatively small core constituency that is severely out of touch with the beliefs and interests of everyone else in Vancouver.

  • IanS

    Disappointing result from my perspective. I did not really expect Lapointe to unseat Gregor Robertson, but I was hoping that Vision would not get the majority on Council. Oh well.

    Congrats to Vision and their supporters here.