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Welcome back, you probably see the Olympic banners and signs that springing around metro Vancouver.


And now an advocacy’s group is hoping that a see of a red tent will provide shelter and send a message. Tim Weeks reports.

Lots of tent’s been setup for the Olympics, sooner could be a lot more like this one.

“Opens rapidly, here it is.”

The Prvot Legal society wants to distribute 500 bright red tents to the homeless, provide them shelter and make them bloody visible to Olympic visitors and foreign media hoping to shame the federal government it was establishing a national housing strategy.

“If they to do that as the result of this campaign then we will have a Olympic housing legacy coming out the Olympic which was one of the promises that was made by the federal government. I wish they have taken a no step towards to cheating us.”

The court of peal recently ruled the homeless if there is no shelter space available can set up a temporary tent. Prvot plan to meet the city of Vancouver soon to discuss that the tent campaign and its legal basis. But the city says it’s not in the favor of the tend city’s which is often attract drugs and violence. It says rather help the homeless to find the shelter space and someone of the homeless wanted to call attention this situation in such a public way.

“A number of advocator’s group is rise the questions that whether or not the prvot campaign is a simplely PR campaign, that’s exploiting homeless people for the own gain. “

Meanwhile at least on housing advocates says people still needs the tents as of the problem of Olympic proportions.

“This is a really, really important campaign the federal government has just completely dropped the ball.”

Prvot says they’ll hold off to deciding how to precede that red tent campaign until hears the city’s plan for the homeless during the Olympics.