Mayorialy Candidate--Peter Ladner

Peter Ladner was born in Vancouver and even lived in the Arbutus Village for a year or so. He feels he really knows the issues that will come before City Council in the next term and asks does Gregor Robertson? Peter owns and operates the Business in Vancouver newspaper, which he started in 1989 He was educated at UBC and has 4 children in their 20's one still at U. Vic. His father was a founding partner in the Law firm Ladner Downs. He maintains that the Business community is the health of the City and asks the question ' is the real estate tax really a wealth tax?' Is the renter getting driven out of the city? The NPA is proud of the last three years of progress. Vancouver has the biggest social housing in the province of B.C. We must continue to work with the senior levels of government, as this social housing has to be paid for. Peter has been a member of the GVRD and Trans link boards. He has two terms as vice chair. He asks can we re-cycle organic waste? 2010 Olympics is coming Gregor has only lived in the City for 3 years. Before that he lived on Cortez Island. What does he know about the city? Peter promises to make the city both liveable and competitive. Peter is in favour of greater density around the Sky train stations. He was in favour of compensation to the Cambie merchants but was unable to work it out. He said it would set a precedent. He said maybe the drug injection site is a hindrance not help. He does favour working with Salvation Army to help drug users. They have set aside 12 new sites to help the homeless He said the business tax would go down over the next two years.