Spring Break

The best wrap-up comment on Vancouver’s future after the Games came from Prof Kennedy Stewart in the very last paragraph of a New York Times article by Ian Austen.

Vancouver Journal
A $1 Billion Hangover From an Olympic Party
By IAN AUSTEN
Published: February 24, 2010

“What’s the substantive thing Vancouver has to offer other than its nice mountains and vastly overpriced real estate?” Professor Stewart asked. “The forestry industries have collapsed, so where is the money going to come from other than marijuana grow-ops?”

Let me see if I understand professor stewart’s logic correctly – because the forestry industry has collapsed he thinks it is silly to try and lure new investors and companies to Vancouver? Isn’t the collapse of our traditional resource base more of a reason to try to woo new economic forces to come here?

Also “there is still an undercurrent of crankiness and apprehension in the city” – this is blatantly false in my experience of Vancouver. I love how reporters take one person’s opinion and turn it into fact.

Sorry to rain on your negativity parade; carry on.