Change Starts Here

 

Dear Social Media Contacts who insist that

what happened over three weeks in Ottawa

was okay because it was peaceful,

If you illegally occupy a section of the downtown 

core, one long loud three-ring-circus flag-waving 

freedom-chanting singalong street-party carnival 

doesn’t make it okay, 

or change the fact that it’s illegal.

Ask the couple with a pride flag in their window

if they were okay with the threats and 

verbal abuse. 

Or the disabled person who couldn’t get to 

the grocery store 

or have a worker come to their apartment. 

Or the employees of more than 180 shops 

and services who were unable to work for 

nearly a month. 

Or the reporters who were yelled at for 

doing their job,

the passerby for wearing a mask, 

the residents who had to put up with the 

disruption,

the garbage, the incessant noise, the toxic air.

If any of that is okay with you, 

please wave your flag adios and dance on 

out of my social media.

Many thanks!
#annerenouf