The irony was impossible to ignore.
Inside Vancouver’s Wall Centre — a 48-storey condo of glass named for one of the city’s most prominent developers — hundreds of politicians were gathered to discuss B.C.’s housing crisis and what could be done to improve it.
Less than two kilometres away was Canada’s most visible tent encampment.
“It is a rare opportunity that we have a federal, provincial and municipal governments increasingly aligned on solving this problem,” said Liberal MP Terry Beech, representing Ottawa at the conference.
“This is a window of opportunity that we need to jump through.”
That was on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, the batons were out,
