Stephen Harper is a champion of the right to protest, as long as it doesn't include violence and as long as it doesn't occur in his Canada. He has on a few occasions opined that he firmly supports the protest de jour in whatever country there happens to be people setting themselves on fire or clashing with police, and or military. The latest rounds of protests happen to be taking place in countries where dictatorships are the norm and where people are rounded up, beaten, and locked in cages, and in some cases, "disappeared". Need I remind anyone that this same Stephen Harper turned Toronto into a mini version of these countries during the G20 fiasco last summer?

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Of course people will say that these instances cannot be compared because we live in a free, democratic society that is not governed by evil dictators. These people are truly clueless and haven't got a clue what actually happened to Canada last summer. So no one was killed, so what? So, people who were protesting legally and peacefully as within their Charter rights to do so were swarmed by police and some were beaten. The city looked like a war zone with the fences and the barricades, and not to mention the fires that ensued. People were rounded up not for what they did, but for what they might do as Chief Blair put it. Police abused their powers and no one, not one single person in the government has the balls to stand up and say that they abused all of us by holding this shindig in a country that Stephen Harper seems to be oh so proud of.

Harper is a hypocrite and his time in office needs to end. He has to go, he doesn't care about democracy or Canada. His past actions should have proved that point loud and clear. How dare he tell us that we are too tired for an election or that we don't want one. Democracy doesn't take a back seat to tiredness and expressing his approval for protest in other countries while at the same time attempting to stifle it in our own makes him out to be the hypocrite that he is, and what he has been all along.

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