Pro-China Protest in Toronto

This afternoon an unusual protest took placed in Toronto’s Dundas Square, among the shopping mall “Eaton Center” and the Ryerson University in downtown Toronto.

 On this sunny Saturday afternoon were full of shoppers and students from the near-by Ryerson University.

Unusual in many ways because it was to support China for what’s happening in Tibet, also unusual because Chinese Canadian are not known for public demonstration to support the country they left for freedom. Unlike other protests such as in 1989 when Chinese Canadian were to protest the Tiananmen Square Massacre when Chinese protesters were killed by the Chinese Army in Tiananmen Square.

There were perhaps two hundred mainly Mandarin speaking young Chinese shouting “one China”  and the truth on Tibet with some holding Chinese and Canadian flags on a the sunny afternoon. Across the street outside the Eaton Center there was a small counter protest to support Tibet. With the heavy police present, other than the occasion shouting match it was a peaceful protest on both side.