Organized labour rallies against corporate bailouts during G20 protest

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VINCE VERSACE staff writer

Toronto — Thousands of demonstrators gathered on the front lawn of Queen’s Park to protest the billions of dollars spent on economic recovery worldwide which still has left workers behind, state labour leaders.

“It was not the workers of the world or the workers of Canada that caused this financial crisis,” said Sid Ryan, president of the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL). “We do not want to see the transfer of wealth from the public sector into the hands of the financial private sector. Let the financial sector, the private sector, pay for the financial crisis they created.”

The “People First!”rally was held as G20 summit leaders converged on Toronto after the G8 summit in Muskoka wrapped up. Organizers of the rally wanted to give ordinary working people “a chance to speak out” and rile against issues from government bailouts of failed banking institutions to the $1.1 billion security price tag for the two Canadian summits.

“The First Nations people are living in abject poverty and one hundred communities are living without drinking water on a daily basis,” said Ryan to the rain-soaked protesters. “Instead of spending a billion dollars on security, we could have built water treatment plants right across this province.”

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