In case you haven’t been paying attention, there is a movement spreading like wild fire across North America and around the globe. The movement started just under a month ago when a few hundred protesters took to the streets in New York City’s financial district under the mantra “Occupy Wall Street”. Since then their message has motivated and inspired thousands of people to organize their own Occupy protests in cities around the world.

Considering the fact that the Great Recession of 2008 started in the US with the sub-prime mortgage fallout, which eventually lead to the global financial meltdown and subsequent credit crisis, it isn’t surprising that this grassroots movement started on Wall Street. In the US, the gap between the rich and the poor is among the highest in the world, the American banks were benefactors of an unpopular massive government bailout, people are still having their homes foreclosed on in record numbers (by the very banks who received billions of dollars in government bailouts), and unemployment is still hovering around 9%. This movement has been bubbling under the surface for a long time and it seems to have reached a boiling point.

Occupy Canada?

But what about Canada? Canadians have been told over and over again by politicians and corporate leaders that Canada escaped the Great Recession relatively unharmed, that our banks are solid, and that the fundamentals of our economy are sound. But how much of that is actually true? I think most Canadians would be surprised to find out the truth behind the rhetoric.

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