something that's not being reported is that the guards in front of the monument are fairly recent. the monument is a wwI thing, mostly. there's been some vandalism at war monuments across the country. wwI was....kind of not a good war to fight, especially not from a distance over in canada. we got slaughtered. the brits used us as cannon fodder. but, this is a guns & flags patriotic conservative government so they put guards in front of the monument.
the irony is immediately apparent. in the sense that we fought for something in at least the second world war, it was to fight against police states. then, you go and put some guards in front of the monument. there is actually significant opposition to this in canada, but it's the kind of populist opposition that is without any kind of representation.
regardless, the target is sort of curious, isn't it?
