[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

That's the nice thing about these protests - if you have a grievance, you can protest it.

And keep in mind, there are plenty of people in this country who don't have it as rosy. You make it sound like everyone is Canada should be thanking their lucky stars to be here and that being Canadian is "good enough." That's nice on paper and all, but it's simply not the case for every Canadian. Canadians can suffer too.

Clearly not everyone is 100% content in Canada or Calgary, but this goes back to what Cow was saying. If this movement really is gaining traction and so many people have so many grievences they why aren't we actually seeing those people get out with the usualy group of smelly hippies?

This isn't a groundswell of people who feel opressed and what to see significant change, this appears to be a loose group of people who either just hate the system but can't articulate it better than saying "Corporations are bad", nor offer any sort of suggestions for improvements, or middle class kids who feel the need to fight for the downtrodden folks who apparently don't know they are downtrodden.

Protesting a system that works better than 90% of them out there is a waste of effort. You simply won't be able to get the support needed for significant change, becasue the vast majority of the people recoginze that collectively we've got it pretty good.