Our final Soapbox Social panel of 2024. Podcast host Mo Amir and Vancouver criminal lawyer Kyla Lee speak with host Gloria Macarenko about the week’s biggest stories: Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim’s plans to make the city bitcoin-friendly, cracks at the seams of the B.C. Conservative Party, and what Kyla and Mo learned from each other this year.
“…are we not just allowing people to go back to laundering money through bitcoin, through City Hall… I think this is a terrible idea. I think it’s fraught with problems… If you start investing city funds, taxpayer funds, in something that is uninsured and unrecoverable, I’m not comfortable with that..”