[Hondaracer]

Frankly regardless of Japan’s attention to detail their land mass will never bode well to surviving things like this long term. Density is too high. I don’t care how high strung your society is, you can’t beat volume. I’ll give BC credit in their handling of this, however I think a huge factor in their relative success in handling it is due to low density of the population in the GVRD

I still see people complaining about Vancouver not being a world class city in other threads. We will see once this is all over what Canada and Vancouver look like.

I believe besides the incompetence of our federal govt. and to our provincial in many aspects (although even taking a neutral stance I will say the NDP has done an OK job) BC always comes out ahead based on its own merit.