Most Council weeks, one can see former candidate Ron Sostad speaking about the glory days of C.O.P.E (Committee of Progressive Electors) in Vancouver. After winning a majority on Council and the Mayor's seat, developers and American activist groups funded Vision Vancouver and stole the prize from the not so ardently communist members of COPE. The recruitment of a horde of left leaning Liberals sealed COPE's fate.
Tim Louis has been attempting a counter revolution (http://www.straight.com/news/550071/cope-verge-civil-war#comments) and looks like he has seized back his home from the interlopers but can he seize back the council?
It looks like Tim may have company as Ron Sostad has committed to establishing a COPE North Van as a branch of the Vancouver elector organization. Why not? North Van had a Communist Party candidate in the last provincial election. Perhaps he will start a lower mainland trend, you can't start a world wide revolution and restrict yourself to Vancouver.
It will be interesting to see if Ron can recruit more candidates, after all he needs 4 seats to present the possibility of winning a majority of Council, perhaps he should start with Kimball Cariou since he has run provincially. Perhaps Ron will run for Mayor?
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