Why not fake out the forces of might?
The fences are in place. Toronto is prepared to emulate Quebec, come next weekend.
I’m not going to be there. The system is prepared; not one shout of protest will be heard by the “deciders”, and come Monday next we’ll have a few bad memories and not much else to show for the publicly funded party. Oh, there’s a paltry billion dollars that will have bought some toys and padded the overtime cheques of a large number of police officers; chump change.
Someone on the CBC website put forth an interesting idea. What if nobody came to stand outside the fence? No water cannon photo ops. No souvenir plastic bullets. A week of major inconvenience to people who work and live in the city centre, but nobody to blame. I like the idea.
Canada preaches to the world at large that we are a peaceful, successful nation. The preparations by the government give lie to this notion. What if there were no news clips showing a fog of tear gas? How anti-climatic.
Closer to home, we’ve got some squatters. A family of starlings has taken up residence in the air vent leading away from the attic. Messy, messy squatters. Our first attempt to clean up the neighbourhood (with a water hose) showed that some real elbow grease (and protective gloves) will be needed once the fledglings have “flown the nest”. Do people that provide bird houses have a maid service on the side? I have no problem with a little more contact with the wild side, but guano isn’t a money crop on this farm.
