Something that has been bugging me for a while now living here in B.C. is the problem with homelessness. Coming from Winnipeg, Manitoba you do see some homeless people, I mean every city has at least a few people. However here in Chilliwack, B.C it’s pretty much an “in your face approach”. The homeless people 99% of the time do not bother you and most do not beg but a few may have cardboard signs up stating there homeless and hungry or something similar. You see them out side during the day on a bus bench at a Walmart or at night sleeping under the front walkway canopy at the local welfare office or pitching a tent in the bushes.
My heart goes out to them. I realize that here in B.C the provincial govt is very conservative and generally looks after upper class taxpayers and people who contributed in their last campaign. I’m not going to go off on a rant about politics but I just want to set a picture of in my opinion how B.C. is so much different then in good old Manatoba.
As a renter, the landlord and tenants board is not nearly as fair and just as in Manitoba. You have to pay for any disputes with your landlord and in my case a few years ago, key evidence was not allowed to be brought up let alone submitted. An appeal is possible but again you have to pay for that privilege only to have the same person who was presiding in your last dispute with your landlord handle solely your appeal. Then to respond back with ” you can not appeal because you did not like the outcome of the case”.
I always thought that if I won the lottery one of the first things I would do is buy up acres of land just out of the city and fill it with trailer homes and house all the homeless from Hope to Chilliwack B.C. , but I know thats just a dream.
After that I would buy the first plane ticket out of this messed up city and header home to Winnipeg.
