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http://www.nsnews.com/issues03/w042703/045103/news/045103nn9.html
It appeared in the Sunday, April 27, 2003 edition.
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NEWS photo Paul McGrath
DAVID Ingram is waving the flag to show his support
for better relations between Canada and the United States. His
enthusiasm failed to impress his property manager.
Ingram waves U.S. flag
Jane Seyd [email protected]
WEST Vancouver tax consultant and former talk show
host David Ingram says he won't back down on flying the flag to
show his support for the United States.
Ingram, who works out of an office at 100 Park Royal
South, recently raised the ire of property managers after he
decided to place six Canadian and American flags in a flower
planter outside his office window.
Ingram decided to plant the 12-inch flags because he
wanted to make a statement about unity between the two countries.
"This business of bad relations between Canada and the U.S. that
has been taking place shouldn't be happening," he said.
It's a statement that Ingram has already made
publicly before. During the U.S. war in Iraq, Ingram organized a
pro-U.S. rally at the south end of Vancouver's Burrard Street
Bridge. Ingram said Canada was wrong not to join the U.S. in the
Iraq campaign.
The tension between the two countries over that
decision has affected many of his acquaintances, he said. "We do
about 50 per cent of our business with the United States."
Ingram said he recently had that message brought home
to him when he tried to buy a computer printer on eBay from an
American.
"The man wouldn't sell it to me because I was a
Canadian," he said. "He didn't like Canada because Mr. Chretien
was not supporting the United States in their Iraq campaign."
Ingram thought the flags looked great amongst the
purple and yellow pansies in the flower planter.
"I had a couple dozen people stop and say 'Boy that
looks good!' " he said. "They were really pretty. They were
waving in the breeze."
The property manager didn't agree. Instead, he phoned
Ingram and told him to remove the flags from the flower bed,
pointing out the flower planter is in a common area of the
building.
Ingram refused. "I said I'm not going to take them
out. They look great."
Next, the property manager sent someone down to
remove the flags.
"He took them out and I grabbed them out of his hand
and put them back up," said Ingram. Nasty phone calls ensued.
Ingram said for now, he's decided to back off. But
don't expect this to be the end of it, he said.
This weekend, Ingram is involved in organizing a
pro-U.S. rally at the Seaforth Armoury in Vancouver as a
follow-up to the pro-U.S. rally he lead last month.
When he gets some more time, though, he has plans for
Park Royal. "I'll call 100 friends over and they can come and
park in the parking lot with their American flags and Canadian
flags flying and I'll have a party," he said.
The building's property managers could not be reached
for comment to press time.
david ingram - [email protected]
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