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From: jimr@hcrvx2.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
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Subject: Re: Expo unpopularity?   (was: Apology for EXPO posting.)
Message-ID: <2374@hcrvx2.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Aug-86 15:52:56 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 14 15:52:56 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 15-Aug-86 07:42:10 EDT
References: <975@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: jimr@hcrvx2.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Organization: Human Computing Resources, Toronto
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Keywords: Expo, Vancouver, Social Credit
Summary: 

In article <975@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU> newman@athena.mit.edu (Ron Newman) writes:
>I visited both Expo 86 and the Vancouver Folk Music Festival last month,
>and came away with the distinct impression that at least some of the
>people in Vancouver don't want Expo and wish it would go away.  
>
>It was obvious that the Folk Music crowd and the residents of the
>Italian neighborhood around Commercial Drive dislike Expo.  What I
>couldn't tell was how widespread that sentiment was.  Would you
>(andrews@ubc-cs) or anyone else at UBC care to guess what percent
>of Vancouver is really anti-Expo?

At the risk of making sweeping generalizations I'd guess that a 
significant percentage of the people at the Folk Music Festival are
of a leftish persuasion. Since left-leaning BCers, for the most
part, do not like the Socreds (and thus by extension, EXPO) 
it should come as no surprise that Mr. Newman experienced an anti-EXPO
sentiment at said festival. 

Thus, obtaining a reliable reading re the overall popularity of EXPO at 
the festival was probably about as likely as getting one from 
the local Chamber of Commerce.

J.B. Robinson