The anxiety stems from a recent provincial government law empowering the police to force rough sleepers into shelters in extreme weather, a move which homeless groups appear to view as an Orwellian effort at civic image control. Police officers have been told to use only “non-forceful touching” in implementing the Assistance to Shelter Act, but that has not stopped critics calling it the Olympic Kidnapping Act.
Vancouver crackdown on homeless
Winter Olympics on slippery slope after Vancouver crackdown on homeless | World news | guardian.co.uk
Hey, it worked for China.
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