B.C. city councillors asked to resign after remarks about homeless [Video]

Two city councillors in Port Coquitlam, B.C., are facing calls to resign following comments they made referring to homeless people as “people who don’t want to work” and describing a local shelter as a “government-funded crack house.”

The comments were made Sept. 10 at a council committee meeting.

Following a presentation from Coquitlam RCMP on crime statistics, Coun. Dean Washington said he wanted to talk about 3030 Gordon Ave., a shelter run by Rain City Housing on the border of Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam.

“The amount of whatever you want to call them,” he said. “I don’t use the term homeless. I use the term ‘people who don’t want to work.’ So I’ve been shocked at how many new people who don’t want to work are in the downtown.”

Washington then proceeded to talk about people using drugs on Shaughnessy Street.

“I’m frustrated. That would be the understatement of the …