It is stunning how DERAILED from reality the columnist is.

He writes: "People in Vancouver need to get out of their idyllic little bubble and see how things are in the rest of the country - not everyone has fluked a small fortune as a result of home ownership. Many people across this country live day to day."

Hello?

Um, hey, columnist, there are PLENTY of young families in the Vancouver area who live day to day, there are plenty of young families in the Vancouver area who do not own a house and who will NEVER benefit from the flood of overseas money that is skyrocketing house prices in town.

And plenty of those young families OPPOSE the pipeline to Vancouver.

The word DISGUSTING is the word that fits what the columnist has done in this deplorable column. He is invoking something comparable to racism, painting a pejorative stereotype of a people as spoiled, pampered, ultra-rich and out of touch, solely on the basis that they a. live in Vancouver and b. oppose the pipeline.