August 21, 2007
Bush Bash
Upwards of 1,500 protesters from Montreal, Toronto, Quebec City, and Hamilton marched on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday to protest the arrival of U.S. President George W. Bush. Bush will meet today with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon in Montebello, Quebec on the two-year-old Security and Prosperity Partnership. The agenda is to include emergency planning for an avian-flu pandemic, the recall of Chinese-made toys, and border security. Demonstrators denounced the summit as anti-democratic and warned the public that Canada's sovereignty is at stake, and anti-war activists chanted "George Bush shame on you/Daddy was a killer too." The otherwise peaceful protest ended with one arrest related to a spray painting incident.
To read more on the Summit visit The Ottawa Citizen.
Photos by James Helmer
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"It's too late for me, Luke, save yourself"
"Bush, Cheney, Rice...these can only lead to the Dark Side, and once down that path, forever will you stay"
(sigh)...As an American, let me please apologize for my country and it's (cough) leader. I know it's no excuse, but I didn't vote for this guy, who is, aside from being the most dangerous threat to world peace, he is the dumbest. (sigh)(double-sigh). Can't wait to see how Bush embarrasses us again.
I am afraid for you , Canada.
America is a lost cause, I have felt (uncharacteristically optimistically) that there is still some hope for you though. El Diablo is visting the Great White North...sad.
Funny, at the same time I'm reading this, "Everywhere you go, it's the same cry, money worries" by Bedouin Soundclash is playing on my pc.
When I was a courier in Ottawa, I found the G8 protests to be a real annoyance, as no one was sending packages that week, and it took forever to get between destinations.
I would be more sympathetic to them now.
Someone needs to tell those who carry signs in French or Spanish that Bush can't understand them. He barely speaks English without malapropisms. Those signs need to be translated in kindergarten-level English if Bush is expected to know (not necessarily understand) what they say.
"Canada hands off Haiti"????
Wrong protest dude.
I think when canadians see a protest they all start protesting en masse even though they have no real clue what the are protesting against.
#4 - That's what happens at every vaguely purposes protest. This protest was for what? To protest the existence of a single person, or the patter of his actions? Hardly a specific issue you can be for or against.
I'm still waiting for the day one of these protests accomplishes something. We already know Bush sucks, the majority of Canadians were on that page 6 years ago. Ottawa is a big anarchist syndicate hotspot, and once again they fail to live up to their beliefs and *do* something for the cause.
"demonstrations accomplish nothing, that's why we still allow them"
-I'm paraphrasing slightly a line from one of the government ministers in Jose Saramago's, "Seeing" his brilliant follow-up to "Blindness".
My only complaint with the protest is the chant, "George Bush, Go Home." We don't want him back.
Yeah, can't you send him up north so that in a hilariously ironic twist-of-fate...a polar bear eats him and then craps him out on a melting glacier.