To the editor:
Re: “Shut up and start shovelling,” June 25.
I attended the South Vancouver Seniors’ Arts and Cultural Society’s AGM held recently and was very disturbed by the conduct of Vision councillors Tony Tang and Raymond Louie.
Political grandstanding aside, Tang insisted on translating all of Louie’s remarks in Cantonese. Perhaps a third of the members at the meeting were Chinese, however there was also a large contingent of Punjabi seniors present. Why was no translation was provided for them?
Tang and Louie obviously were pandering to their supporters and their disregard for other large groups of the audience that had English as a second language smacks of political opportunism or something worse.
Rod Raglin,
Vancouver
