In a city owned by the right and run by the left, Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell is conspiring to blame you if B.C. does not win the bid to hold the 2010 winter Olympics. Yes folks, the B.C. games, not Vancouver's games and not Whistler's games. The Olympic bid belongs to British Columbia and to a larger extent all Canadians.

Campbell and his lefty pals have no moral or legal right in promising a plebiscite on the issue to Vancouverites alone. Why should Vancouver alone be able to dictate if the games should be held here or not and jeopardise the bid. With the Winter Games plebiscite less than two weeks away, more than 125 groups from outside Vancouver have sent letters and declarations of support to the 2010 Olympic Bid Corp.

They include the city councils of Cranbrook, Hope, Kelowna, Penticton, Prince George, Smithers, Williams Lake and the Peace River Regional District. They include community and business groups like the North Vancouver Rotary Club, the Richmond Asia Pacific Business Association and Volunteer Richmond, the latter from a city which will reap the rewards of being the gateway for the Games.

Heck even the tourism bureaus in Regina, Saskatoon, Lethbridge and Newfoundland and organizations in Washington and Oregon, who can see the benefits have come out to support the games.

Maybe somebody from one of these groups should get a court injunction against Vancouver to stop the plebiscite. Why should the majority in B.C. have their future dictated by the minority in Vancouver especially when their taxes will be supporting the bid and their communities will be participating in it.

The plebiscite is rooted in a selfish agenda by Campbell who promised the non-binding and divisive vote to get the title 'his worship'.

Since then he has been flip-flopping on the issue like a cheap burger.

Now in an attempt to not go down in history as the man who killed the Olympics, he says: "If you don't get out and vote, don't blame anybody but yourself for the result." Campbell's lack of foresight has also fuelled the naive, who seem to think that the money not used on the Olympics will be magically channelled into such things as free housing, better roads and more safe-injection sites.

That, everyone except for the confused rag-tag bunch of nay-sayers, know is not going to happen.

The Olympics in B.C. will do wonders for the province and leave lasting legacies for future generations. Just think back on how the economy boomed after we held the World Expo.

The independent B.C. Auditor-General Wayne Strelioff recently concluded that a successful bid could add $4.2 billion to the provincial Gross Domestic Product over the next 12 to 17 years.

Victoria may also reap as much as $500 million in extra revenue from the Games.

Now instead of spending $500,000 on a useless and destructive plebiscite, we should be spending that money for a top-notch tourism marketing program to run before and after the Games. Campbell and his comrades have put B.C. in the unenviable position of losing the Games. It is now up to the 293,000 registered voters in Vancouver to save the day.

We can only hope they are not as selfish and confused as their mayor and think about the rest of B.C. when they cast their ballots on Feb 22.