wrest Today’s column is a re-run of the Friday, Dec. 16 column due to a mix-up in sequence. WHERE ARE you, Jack Davis, and why aren’t you raising public hel} about people being shut out of their own city by Hong Kongers? I refer to the news that the 216 condominiums deing built in False Creek by a company controlled by Victor Li were sold in Hong Kong in three hours without even being advertised here. As I said months ago, we'll soon be a colony of a colony. In case anyone has forgotten, Victor Li is the son of Li Ka-shing, a.k.a. Li Cash-in, the Hong Kong billionaire to whom Bill Vande: Zaim sold the Expo grounds. I’ve seen no comment from you Jack, in spite of the fact that you wrote privately to the premier last May pointing out what was hap- pening. I ran bits from that letter, which was dropped into my hands by a friend. As you may recall, one of your assistants asked me not to mention that a minister was in- volved — in case it embarrassed you with the premier. Sorry I wasn’t able to do you that favor. You wrote: ‘‘Residential real estate prices in substantiai areas of Vancouver are now rising rapidly and one of the causes is immigrant Chinese with B.C. real estate licences obtaining exclusive rights to sell, and then shopping the real estate in question around Hong Kong,”’ etc. After that column and others on how we were being squeezed out of the housing market, a North Van real estate operator whose com- pany had been advertising local property in Hong Kong, com- plained to our managing editor that I was listening to loonies. The cat’s out of the bag now, though. Ain’t it great that we are not even thought to be important enough to see the ads? As Hong Kong property analyst Rick Gossen put it: “Pretty soon, you will have a property market in Vancouver that runs irrespective of local buyers.’’ He stated further that there would be developers who don’t have to cater to local people ‘‘because they can sell out in Hong Kong.’’ Quite. I have been saying much the same thing. But I listen to loonies and may even be a loony myself. When Premier Vander Zalm flogged the Expo grounds to Mr. Cash-in I heaved one of my biggest sighs, and I can sigh big. It was clear that the Asian inva- sion was on, and that it was being supported by the Great Slam himself, who is now making weak "A Place To Go When | You're Pregnant And Need Support: GIRTHRIGHT | Call 987-7313 « Free Pregnancy Test « | In Vancouver Call 687-7223 im 229 Lonsdale @ North Vancouver 2460 Marine Drive .- +7 West VAncouver ° 922-3014 noises to the effect that British Columbians should be treated more fairly. Let’s hope he can do more than hope. Lf, a free enterprise system, it’s @ matter of devil take the hindmost. I agree with that. But there are limits. Also, until now there’s never been a mass exodus of people loaded with so much dough they can’t carry it.’? Let’s say it again — he was the one who gave Cash-in the nod on the Expo site. Better he should have let his pal Toigo have it. This False Creek deai is typical. There have been other instances where the Canadian peasants didn’t get a look-in, and that seems to be the shape of things to come. In a free enterprise system, it’s a matter of devil take the hindmost. I agree with that. But there are limits. Also, until now there’s never been a mass exodus of peo- ple loaded with so much dough they can’t carry it. So we should have a reappraisal. In the case of this latest eye- bobber, a spokesman for Victor Li said it had been the company’s in- tention to put the condos on the market simultaneously in Hong Kong and Vancouver. ‘‘Eut some- one forgot to account for the time-zone changes.”’ A real joke, that. We’re at the wrong end of the time zone! Teday it’s Sunday. That’s here. In Hong Kong, however, it’s already Monday. But they’re ahead of us in more ways than one. They would have the drop on us even without those time zones. As they keep saying, we're a bunch of slowpokes. I'm a prophet, Jack. I know that because some loony just rang up to tell me so. Meanwhile, your feliow cabinet minister, Rita Johnston, says we must determine what the Hong Kongers’ game plan is. Well, I can tell her. It’s to buy every house around. We can go up to Tuktoyaktuk. Raise public hell, Jack, you be- ing our MLA and close to the Slam. The day is late @ 89 MAZDA 4x2 PICKUP 5 spd., AM/FM radio 2.2 live egine steel belted radial tires, Tinted glass. NUMBER ONE IN CUSTOMER SATISFACTION ROCK BOTTOM PRICES. P.D.1. & FREIGHT $325 METALLIC PAINT EXTRA AE NOR H SHORE HOURS — Mor thus 99 | 700 AIARINE DR. » NORTH VANCOUVER “Lease For Less’’ All Makes! Short and Long term! Everything from.:. ‘Jetta's to Jaguar’s” Buy-out options available at lease-end. 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