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Originally Posted by BobLoblawsLawBlog
-Only city in Canada that won't kill you in the winter because 2 degrees and rain is better than -13 with a blizzard
-All homeless people move to the place where they won't die
"Oh my god why does Vancouver have a homelessness crisis"
If this is the worst Canada has to offer then I think we are doing pretty well.
Also, what is this guy from New Delhi talking about. There a literally miles and miles of slums as far as the eye can see there and we have like a couple hundred tents lying around.
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Sounds like you are OK with what we have on our streets. Got used to it I see?
For me, it's a real shame seeing the appalling situation on our downtown streets, and no, we are not doing well at all. In fact, the situation is getting worse. It's even more daunting when I visit supposed "developing country" cities and they are starting to have cleaner inner city streets than what we have here. It's shameful especially when you see tourists in Vancouver staring in disbelief at people shooting up in public around the corner of major tourist belts, or zombie-like people flaying their arms about yelling their heads off. Some people pretend that it's normal but it is not. It is sickening.
It's never OK to take the negative effects of illicit drug use or other forms of addictions lightly. Doing that compounds the situation, and we see the result today.
Canada is a wealthy nation. No one is forced into homelessness due to their surroundings. There is always a way to get out of it if the individual really wants to. For those who can't or choose not to, authorities should step in and make them get better, not encouraging them to further their addictions.
See all the photos here and you tell me this is "normal":
https://www.google.ca/search?q=Drug+...w=1575&bih=974