Perilous Passage: Passage Four

Vote Margin Dept: “Fifty people on that boat. If the waves go too high, we all drown,” Mr. Ly recounts. “Eight days. No food. No water. If it didn’t rain, we die.” Price of the perilous passage: four ounces of gold. Compared to that, the store’s recent slowdown doesn’t count for much. “I am very lucky,” Mr. Ly says, according to Globe And Mail. This demographic has made the contest for Vancouver South one of the most hotly contested in the country, particularly targeted by the Tories because of the slim, 20-vote margin the winning Liberals held in 2008. As the race unfolds, it is sure to be a bellwether for the major parties’ professed strategy of attracting visible minorities and but the 69-year-old has something special he wants to show a visitor, and it’s not among the shelves of bottles, with their neat, handwritten, English identification labels Burns Fat, Bad Breath, Liver Cleans, Sperm . In the back is a series of small watercolours painted by Mr. Ly during his time in a refugee camp, including a chilling portrait of a flimsy, wave-tossed craft that carried him from Vietnam in the 1980s. The story of the Vietnamese couple, how they made it to Canada and began their new life, is at the heart of this diverse, culturally rich riding, where immigrants comprise 60 per cent of the population. As reported in the news.
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