Re: "Ban on shark fin in muddy waters," Dec. 3.
It has been a long time since I had shark soup and I cannot say how it tastes or even what part of the shark was in the soup. It was in Thailand, not China.
Ald. Brian Pincott's attempt Saturday to explain why he was championing a ban on shark fin soup in landlocked Calgary was unconvincing and uninspired. He would have been better off arguing that Calgary's Chinese community is overfishing the Great White North Soup Shark that lives in Glenmore reservoir.
What I witnessed at the Chinese Cultural Centre was a smug, patronizing and condescending alderman whose attitude to the Chinese community betrayed a pompous belief in himself and apparently the divine right of a Ward 11 alderman to be reelected time and again.
Gary Beaton, Calgary
It has been a long time since I had shark soup and I cannot say how it tastes or even what part of the shark was in the soup. It was in Thailand, not China.
Ald. Brian Pincott's attempt Saturday to explain why he was championing a ban on shark fin soup in landlocked Calgary was unconvincing and uninspired. He would have been better off arguing that Calgary's Chinese community is overfishing the Great White North Soup Shark that lives in Glenmore reservoir.
What I witnessed at the Chinese Cultural Centre was a smug, patronizing and condescending alderman whose attitude to the Chinese community betrayed a pompous belief in himself and apparently the divine right of a Ward 11 alderman to be reelected time and again.
Gary Beaton, Calgary
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