Yet the nearly 17,000 votes Wong did receive was a much better showing than most expected. Thats due to a campaign she focused tightly on the people left behind by Vancouvers shift towards a green knowledge economy. Affordable neighbourhoods are disappearing, she said. I dont feel good when I see people work hard and cant make ends meet. To Robertsons warning that voting for COPE would get the NPA elected she had two words: fear tactic. ... if its true that Vancouver is now experiencing the erosion of the middle-income class and the movement toward a two-class society, as one recent report puts it, then COPEs appeal to the citys disenfranchised may only grow stronger over the next four years. In 2018, Wong declared to the room, all the money in the world wont buy Vision or the NPA another city hall.
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