In a show-cause hearing the city of Vancouver has a very significant power to require business operators or people who hold business licences to show-cause as to why their licences should not be removed. In fact, this provision has been used on a number of occasions against businesses and stores in the downtown east side that, for example, were selling substances to alcoholics and making huge profits, things like rubbing alcohol or glue for the purpose of sniffing, and was being done deliberately.
En fait, cette disposition a été utilisée à un certain nombre d'occasions contre des entreprises et des commerces du centre-est de la ville qui, par exemple, vendaient en toute connaissance de cause aux alcooliques, en réalisant d'énormes profits, des substances telles que de l'alcool à friction ou de la colle à inhaler.