The Olympics do not represent Canadians

Olympic chair John Furlong was quoted today as saying Canadians were embracing the Olympics:"hook line and sinker".This Freudian slip indicates that Furlong knows he's selling Canadians a line of fish fertilizer.The theme so far has pretended to channel native folklore and art but there has been no native input and artists that have tried to find an outlet for their work have been ignored.The Olympics have so far run a highway through an environmentally sensitive area,broken promises to build housing for the dispossessed,hired private security to "move people along",from the business district,sat back while SRO's have been closed for renovations,worked with police to send to other jurisdictions,people wanted on minor crimes and spent unconscionable sums of money on frivolous things like Olympic clocks and the covering over of Robson Square.Gordon Campbell has finally admitted that the roof is being planned and there has been no public input in spite of Campbell's claims.If the public was to be consulted,Aurthur Erickson would not be trying so hard to distance himself from the project even as I write this piece .Campbell has a habit of starting projects first and asking the people later,after it's redundant.The native people are now claiming their leaders are signing off on projects for personal gain to the detriment of their people.Furlongs hook line and sinker is an old adage used when perpetrating a fraud on someone.His invoking of this is a telling and very enlightening comment.