No link to the story online that I can find, but I was struck by a comment made by a Vancouver city councillor in a CBC Radio news story I heard this morning. The story was primarily about a homeless persons’ tent city that a church in Seattle has allowed to be set up on its land. Naturally, some people are for it, some agin’ it–no surprise there.
Across the border, some activitists in Vancouver would like to see a similar tent city set up. Enter the city councillor, who opposes the idea. Fair enough, but I found the way he chose to phrase that opposition annoying: there was no need to look to the U.S. for any good ideas for dealing with the homeless, he said, because “Americans can’t even run their country,” or words to that effect.
