POT TV – CTV News reported on the City of Vancouver’s dispute with citizens of Vancouver.
The Mayor of Vancouver has vowed to potentially make Vancouver’s 420 protest more expensive by adding additional legal costs, reported CTV News.
Citing a need to ‘recover the cost of policing’ for the public’s right to assembly Kennedy Stewart told CTV “[The City] reserves the right to take legal action against [organizers].” Rather than use the cost of collection and litigation, on a much disputed bill, to staff the next year’s policing budget adequately, which would serve the entire city, the Mayor has been pushed to contemplating poor action by the Parks Board.
The Parks Board’s recent vote, and ignorance of history, prompted the Mayor to respond. John Coupar of the Parks Board told reporters after a motion to block Cypress Hill from performing, “I think [the organizers]should consider a reasonable request [to cancel the performance.]”
When reasonable requests were made to City Council by a wheelchair-bound medical patient for basic health services, already in place, the city responded with shop closures. The move hurt many communities. Yet Parks Board Commissioners continue to dismiss the countless victims of the drug war.
420 event co-organizer Dana Larsen responded to reporters at the National Day of Action on the Overdose Crisis, where he sponsored a parade float and spoke. “[420] is going to be safe and successful. We’ve been putting events on for 25 years.”
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