http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ken-denike-sophia-woo-expelled-from-npa-caucus-over-lgbtq-stance-1.2675495

So apparently some realtors are calling for the school board to delay implementation of the new transgender policy as they think foreigners won’t come to study here. WOW. Regardless of how you feel about this issue, it’s ridiculous that these trustees would bow down to the wishes of realtors. Disgusting.

Why r we letting these people into our country?

I am getting the impression that the machine is turning away from HAM buying and will continue to increasingly discourage HAM, which is slowly turning the tide towards an epic meltdown that will be in part blamed in the HAM factor.

They r counting the votes and realize there is an ups well that wants the leeches gone.

Fuck ya.

Romeo Jordan says:
“I am getting the impression that the machine is turning away from HAM buying and will continue to increasingly discourage HAM”

Where do you “get this impression” from you tard? If it from the our government promoting another IIP program in Asian? Or from the thousands of temporary school and work visas? Or is it from Vancouver’s mayor speaking chinese?

Ken Denike, Sophia Woo you should be ashamed of yourselves. At least say you are ethically or religiously against the change but to say:

At the news conference Denike and Woo told reporters that realtors are concerned about the policy’s potential negative impact on the enrolment of international students as well as public school students on Vancouver’s west side.

Who gives a $hit what realtors think about this proposal. Is our city sooo beholden to the real estate industry that all public policy has to be rubber stamped by them.

This is beyond bizarre.

@1

Money is power.

Closing our eyes and pertending that foreign money isn’t rescaling the city in a bad way is naive. Pertending it isn’t going to get worse is naive.

They won’t win this roud, but their money and influence is only growing and their intentions are clear.

The next time a customer at McDonald’s demands the staff speak mandarin they just may be taken seriously.

In reference to the NPA comments regarding foreigners reluctance to invest because of LGBT issues – the solution to stem the tide is obvious!

Have a pride parade every weekend up and down every HAM filled neighbourhood until they move their closed-minded ignorant asses someplace else.

Barb Rennie (Beatch),

It’s from CMHC releasing some foreign buying data, the banks saying we don’t have this data don’t blame us but maybe start to spoon feed it to the media so we can blame them. It is from osfi review of lending to “new canadians” standard different from us who have to show income verification – watch and wait, more new rules and regulations to come.

For now, go back to the hole you crawled out from
I will tell you when it is time to come out.

Do it.

@10 any links?

I’d love for this to be true.

Re: NPA & LBGT
On the bright side the NPA has kicked out 2 admittied real estate shills. Although this might be because they blew their cover.

$1.55 gas is not going to encourage the great unwashed to go out and buy pre-sale condos and upgrade from a condo (condo prices are going down) to a sfh.

The shitstorm which is now only subtly underway, will gather momentum and intensity.

Believe it. Fact.

I also agree with those of you posting here about the ridiculousness of school trustees advocating on behalf of the real estate industry.

This one will have the politically correct left wing twisted in knots. The left says we cannot criticize our immigration policies that encourage very wealthy immigrants to come here and buy up real estate because that would be racist. The left also says we should tolerate transgendered people. The problem is many of the wealthy immigrants are themselves intolerant of transgendered people. So what is the position of the politically correct left on that? Are we supposed to tolerate the intolerance of rich Chinese immigrants? Is it racist to be intolerant of the intolerance of rich Chinese immigrants? What are the limits of tolerance? This is exposing a major failure of multiculturalism.

@George

As far as I know, being LGBT is not against the cultural values of any nationality. It is against some religions but the lefties stood up to the Christians, so there’s no problems with them standing up against the Muslims and Buddhists.

Asia does not discriminate against LGBT. China and the Muslim countries may have a problem, but that in no way is a cultural practice.

This isn’t a failure of multiculturalism, it is a failure of entitled immigrants pulling out the race card.

@ T #17

Your comment is so wrong and full of ignorance that it is disturbing. Levels of acceptance of LGBT is very much a cultural issue that varies from country to country and even within the same country over time. It’s not all about religion. Many refugees enter Canada on the basis of discrimination in their home country for being gay.

“Asia does not discriminate against LGBT.”

This is from the wikipedia page on “Homosexuality in China”:

“However, despite these changes, no civil rights law exists to address discrimination or harassment on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. The media tends to censor positive depictions of gay couples in films and television shows and households headed by same-sex couples are not permitted to adopt children and do not have the same privileges as heterosexual married couples.”

Those retrograde and primitive HAM forces supported by local greedy but shortsighted quasi-politicians are setting up this society for disaster. Beside that I am seriously impressed how far impudence of those mind-screwed bastards like Jane Wang can go as they probably think this the same Chinese village where they came from and where they ruled.

http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2014/06/14/npa-turfs-two-school-trustees-after-they-link-real-estate-with-lgbgt-rights/

Hey George,

Why don’t you do the same search for Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Combodia, Korea, and Japan? Re-read my words, they were :
“Asia does not discriminate against LGBT”
“China and the Muslim countries may have a problem”

Is this a strawman argument you’re trying to pull? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

I’ll admit the LGBT rights aren’t all on par in those countries, but they aren’t beaten, stoned, or jailed for kissing in public.

” This is from the wikipedia page on “Homosexuality in China”:

“The media tends to censor positive depictions of gay couples in films and television shows and households headed by same-sex couples are not permitted to adopt children and do not have the same privileges as heterosexual married couples.” ”

I believe that is the same for for most of the US states.

T is trying to argue that the anti-transgender stance of many of the parents in Vancouver has nothing to do with Chinese cultural beliefs. The problem with that argument is that many of the parents opposed to the transgender policy are citing their Chinese cultural beliefs as the reason why they are against the policy. From the SCMP:

“”I think this goes to Chinese family values,” said Chang on Monday. “Many [opponents of the plan] are Christian, but many are not, and so this is about family values, and the ability of parents to parent their children and not have that disturbed by the school system.”

http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1517362/school-transgender-policy-angers-vancouvers-chinese-christians

Well I’m not Chinese so I can’t speak on their cultural beliefs.

That wiki article you cited on “homesuality in china” has brief on ancient china. It also mentioned that it was only frowned upon in the PRC’s version of China and was also recently legalized.

Those people are just parents being parents, no parents want to see their kid transgendered. The educated accept it, the ignorant shun it.