by Zoe Blunt, Forest Action Network
A Vancouver Island blog is reporting rumours that Bear Mountain Resort is in line to host part of the 2010 Olympic Torch relay this fall.
WTF Langford? cites “insider gossip” as the source of this news, noting that municipalities recently sent their proposals for Torch venues and routes to the Vancouver Olympic Organzing Committee (VANOC). An announcement is expected later this week, the blog says.
Last week, the same blog named Bear Mountain owner Len Barrie “Vancouver Island’s Most Racist Developer” and “Cannibal of the Year” for desecrating native graves, blowing up SPAET Cave and “willfully destroying a million-year-old native artifact.”
The web site spells out a cozy relationship between Barrie and the BC Liberal Party. That relationship was consummated last year with a $10,000-a-plate Liberal fundraising dinner at Barrie’s sprawling house at Bear Mountain.
If VANOC awards Bear Mountain “the endorsement of the world’s largest sporting event and a million-dollar-marketing advantage,” there will be consequences, the blog warns. However, the authors predict, “this little s#$%storm is not going to materialize. Why? Let’s just say we know people. People with morals and the power to use them.”
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Filed under: Anti-olympics, Save Spaet Mountain, local
