Beijing Adult Entertainment: Winter Olympics on slippery slope after Vancouver crackdown on homeless
David Eby, the executive director of the BC Civil Liberties Association, said: “I don’t feel that there is any question among most people who have been following the homeless issue in Vancouver that this act is targeted at giving police a tool to remove homeless people from high-visibility tourist areas.”
Although proposed bylaws against sitting or lying on the pavement were rejected, he thought there would be further attempts to displace the homeless.
For three decades, the port has been a magnet for sex workers driven out of wealthier neighbourhoods, addicts and people released from mental wards shut in the 1990s. Methamphetamine and crack-cocaine users shoot up on the street yards from a police station. A relatively moderate climate and the concentration of needle exchange, safe injection sites and sex worker drop-in centres are further draws.
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