Vancouver quietly proclaimed Chip Wilson Day last month [Video]

On the same day Chip Wilson erected a controversial sign at his Vancouver mansion, the city was quietly honouring the billionaire and his wife.

Officials proclaimed Oct. 3 to be Summer and Chip Wilson Day, shortly after the Lululemon co-founder began displaying a political message outside his waterfront home calling B.C. Premier David Eby’s NDP party “communist.”

“Eby will tell you the Conservatives are ‘far right,’ but neglects saying that the NDP is ‘communist,” the sign said.

On Friday, Wilson shared an Instagram post about the proclamation event, which was held in the city’s Gastown neighbourhood, writing: “This honour means a lot to us.”

Mayor Ken Sim and ABC Coun. Brian Montague are in the photo, standing next to the couple. No other city councillors appear to be in the images.

“At that very same time as the media were reporting on this ridiculous billboard that Chip Wilson had put up on Point Grey …