This morning, on CFUV’s “What The” radio programme, Colin Hansen (or a reasonable facsimile) said he’s having the time of his life at the Olympics hanging out with Wayne Gretzky and Arnold Swartzenegger, so what’s the problem. Those complainers should just remember the fast ferries and bingo-gate. What a mess that was.
(Colin Hansen is British Columbia's Minister of Finance and Minister Responsible for the 2010 Winter Olympics.)
The show’s host drew attention to the big disaster on the very first day of the games, when a luge competitor was killed on what might have been faulty equipment … how does Hansen feel about that. We shouldn’t be so negative, was the response …. nobody’s been killed for almost a week already.
Yesterday I heard about someone’s friend who was hired to drive buses in Whistler. He quit after a couple of days – not because it’s an hour and a half drive each way from Squamish to work, and not because the housing the bus drivers were promised in Whistler isn’t completed (even though unemployment is at an all time high) and the construction is going on all night so they can’t sleep. No, the reason a bunch of bus drivers packed it in is because the schedule is so poorly organized that, when they pull up at a bus stop, there are over 100 people waiting. This particular friend of a friend isn’t interested in pissing that many people off all at once.
If you think they’re doing a crappy job of the Olympics, you should see the mess they've made of the province.
Yesterday I heard about someone’s friend who was hired to drive buses in Whistler. He quit after a couple of days – not because it’s an hour and a half drive each way from Squamish to work, and not because the housing the bus drivers were promised in Whistler isn’t completed (even though unemployment is at an all time high) and the construction is going on all night so they can’t sleep. No, the reason a bunch of bus drivers packed it in is because the schedule is so poorly organized that, when they pull up at a bus stop, there are over 100 people waiting. This particular friend of a friend isn’t interested in pissing that many people off all at once.
If you think they’re doing a crappy job of the Olympics, you should see the mess they've made of the province.
