I’m not sure how many Vancouverites know who you are, but anyone with a public profile and email address is probably aware of your anti-Chinese rantings. They used to be made in the name of "Putting Canada First", before that organisation chucked you out last year for using fake identities to further your agenda. So you set up your own “Cultural Action Party”, and have continued your lonely lament about the supposed marginalisation of the white race in Vancouver.
It’s been a while since I bothered to respond to your frequent emails.
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But I was rather disappointed – no, nauseated, actually – to see that you have been seeking to piggyback on the burgeoning debate about housing affordability in Vancouver, and the role that is played by foreign money (What possessed you to CC me to that bulk email last week, distributed to dozens of real estate, municipal and provincial figures? Did you think bygones were bygones and that I would bask happily in your praise for my reporting ? Or that I would chuckle at your witty use of photos to single out real estate agents with Chinese faces?).
Brad Saltzberg, Vancouver's anti-Asian catfish, as reported by the Hongcouver blog last year.
I should have known that you would seek a role in the affordability debate. I saw you at the May 24 rally for affordable housing. There you were, in a bulky leather jacket, looking every inch the gatecrasher at the prom. You roamed the sidelines, seeking out TV crews and other journalists, and a couple of them interviewed you. Did you tell them your real name, so they could check your dubious past activities? You have used at least four names in your public dealings, so it’s a fair question. Do you go by Brad Saltzberg now? Or is it Salzberg? Or Pascal Brody? Or Paul Bradley? It's a common tactic of your kind, to create the illusion of widespread support.
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I’m not terribly worried that the seeds of your bigotry will find fertile ground among those legitimately concerned about the role of foreign money in Vancouver’s housing market.
