This warning should send a heads-up alert to Chow opponent Councillor Brad Bradford—the only opponent who has a chance to defeat her re-election bid on Monday.
"Vancouver has elected 4 members of COPE to their city council. COPE is a radical "democratic socialist" extreme far left organization that, combined with the Greens, now control the voting bloc for all civic policies in the city for the next four years." #Antifa @ShadoeDavis
Back in the day when ‘Our Toronto’ was the forerunner to Canada Free Press, and before everything was digitalized, existed, Chow and Layton were photographed dancing with joy on a table in celebration of COPE’s takeover of Vancouver’s school board.
“When COPE–originally known as Committee of Progressive Electors–was in its heyday in the early ‘80s, a huge public outcry, led by a Jewish rabbi, forced the news media to identify COPE for what is was, Communist. (Canada Free Press, Nov. 18, 2002)
"Communists Reclaim Municipal Government In Vancouver-CFP headline, Nov.18, 2002.
“In the dying days of last week’s Vancouver municipal election campaign, the Non-Partisan Association (NPA) unleashed a series of negative ads against the Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE). In their 11th hour ad campaign, NPA members tried to link COPE to the former provincial NDP.
“What a joke! For as bad as the British Columbia NDP is, it is not communist, and communism is what COPE is all about.
“The landslide victory of Mayor Larry Campbell and his party, which all but wiped out NPA on council, is a throwback for democracy.
"COPE won eight of 10 city council seats and almost all of the park board seats and school boards seats.
“Up until the public outcry, major media outlets referred to the group as left of centre.
"In describing the COPE victory on the Globe & Mail’s Internet site on Sunday, reporter Jane Armstrong describes the party as "a left-of-centre party that has been shut out of power at city hall since its inception in the 1960s.
“No mention from Ms. Armstrong that Committee of Progressive Electors is now Coalition of Progressive Electors.