As anyone who has followed the news over the past couple days knows, it has been a violent weekend in Toronto. Although I’m sad that this happened here, I can’t say I’m surprised. The “G” meetings are magnets not just for protesters, but for people hell bent on causing a pile of destruction, hiding among peaceful protesters, baiting police and then blaming them when they do engage. It keeps happening. Spending a billion Canadianos on security didn’t do a thing to stop it

Choosing to hold the G20 in downtown Toronto was poor judgment on the part of Prime Minister Harper. It’s about time our political leaders rethink how to go about getting together without turning our cities into riot grounds.