Many Canadians are in dispair about democracy and their political agency because they increasingly recognize that Ottawa politicians are so deeply in robotic lock step with entrenched vested monetary interests that they are incapable of bringing about any meaningful change or even movement on issues.
Yesterday, a modicum of lost faith in democracy was restored when, just prior to the G20 and G8 Summits, Ottawa hosted the epicentre of a 5+ magnitude earthquake near the halls of Federal Power.
While it played hell on the restorative construction taking place around the historic relics known as "parliamentary buildings," it also suggested that Ottawa may actually have access to some of the levers of power and that they may actually have the ability to "shake things up" a little.
In the mean time, in spite of the many fault lines around the capital city, there are no plans for dealing with higher magnitude earthquakes...
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