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To: Land Shark who wrote (931858)	4/25/2016 9:37:57 AM
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How come Canada can't control it's RACISM? Fix it NOW, before you lecture us. Playing the Racist Card in Vancouver to Shut Down Debate Steve Sailer • April 24, 2016 Canada has only one major city with a pretty good climate. Vancouver enjoys gorgeous summers without winters being too harsh. But Vancouver has become too expensive for all but the richest Canadians to dream of making a life there because of all the Asian money pouring into Vancouver due to Canada’s lax legal immigration laws. The people who have been making a lot of money off Vancouver real estate have been quick to denounce critics as racists and xenophobes: From The Walrus: The Highest Bidder How foreign investors are squeezing out Vancouver’s middle class BY KERRY GOLD … [Academic Andy] Yan released his findings to the media on a Monday last November. By the end of the week, the forty-year-old academic was fending off attacks from those who claimed his data smacked of racism. “This can’t be about race,” Mayor Gregor Robertson told cbc’s The National?, “and it can’t be about dividing people.” In the same segment, development consultant Bob Ransford echoed this sentiment. “The danger,” he said, “is intolerance, racism, singling out certain groups of people, saying they’re to blame for this.” … For years, Tsur Somerville, director of the University of British Columbia Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate (which one writer dubbed the “academic wing” of Vancouver’s real-estate industry) blamed xenophobia for concerns about offshore investing.