In Venezuela, the neo-con rich bang pots to bring down a popular president, and bring back oppression of the poor. In Canada, the regular folks do it the other way around–to fight the rich neo-cons who are trying to cheat us all out of a good future.
BTW, the Fraser Institute is deeply un-Canadian and downright anti-Canadian. During the ’90s, they faked a big debt crisis (in response to the overlords of international capitalism), falsely claiming that we could no longer afford a public social safety net, and the media bought it. The feds cut some social services and downloaded others onto the provinces; the provinces then turned around and did the same to municipalities. And right now, the municipalities are teetering on a brink, and taxpayers are still paying (through the nose) for all this Fraser treachery. When we’re not having to pay through the nose for less efficient, more expensive private-for-profit DISservices. Meanwhile, poverty is worse–thanks to Fraser’s loud hyping of a crisis-that-never-was. So it’s good to see them get some bad publicity for a change, and on Global at that–the most right-wing of our major TV networks!
(Oh, and they’re still at it, too…as recently as 2006, they were ringing the phony alarm bells about our national debt, AGAIN. Pfeh.)
I’m so glad to see that there was a good demo against the bastard. Well done, Vancouver.