Enough ‘assessing’, it’s time for action
Re: ‘Disgusting’ hotel’s tenants occupy Vancouver City Hall, June 2.
I agree with Coun. George Affleck that it’s “shocking” that Mayor Gregor Robertson is just now finding it “disgusting ” that the multimillionaire Sahota family let their tenants live in filth and dangerous conditions.
The mayor and city council need to take action now and stop “assessing ” the situation. You don’t need anyone else to tell you that the Sahotas are breaking the law. The pictures tell the story.
I have read about this family for decades now and can’t understand why they continue to have no repercussions for their shameful conduct.
My advice to the tenants of the Balmoral Hotel — take a bus to Shaughnessy and have a nice little picnic in front of one of their mansions, stay there until action is taken. The address was in the newspaper a few years ago when yet another story was published about the slumlord kings.
Although public shaming doesn’t seem to bother the Sahotas, they obviously have no conscience.
Vancouver as a city should be ashamed that this is happening in a place that seems to get wealthier and more ostentatious by the day.
It’s truly shameful our fellow citizens are living like this.
Martha Cheney, Ladner