Using the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games for

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Broadcast Date: June 30, 2003

Jim Green could have been a huge thorn in the side of the Vancouver 2010 bid committee. City councillor, agitator for affordable housing and social justice, Green was poised to fight the bid to the death. Then he decided "to walk hand in hand with the devil." His new strategy is to work for change from within, using Vancouver's hunger for the Games as leverage to help the city's most needy. In this clip, Canada Now profiles the Vancouver bid's most unlikely booster.

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