Location, location, location!

The old addage about making money in business being about location, location, location, can be extended to several things in life besides locating a successful business. House buying comes to mind quickly as does finding a job, and more recently, even protesting.

That's right even protests in the wrong place will be failures. Case in point, the series of protests by the Tamil community in Toronto. As they continue their protests on the streets of Toronto and in front of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, they claim more elaborate traffic stopping protests may be on the way since their message is not getting across to government. Perhaps there is a reason their message is not being heard: they are protesting to the wrong government.

Any military action or international support/aid directives come from the federal government, not the Ontario government. The Federal Government of Canada is located in Ottawa, not Toronto and therefore, much to the displeasure of many Torontonians, the power to do anything internationally or even nationally resides in Ottawa, not Toronto. Given this fact, any protest that deals with national or international situations would be better served by being held in the nation's capital, not Toronto.

Maybe, since the protests in Toronto are doing nothing more than angering a large population, it may be time to move these protests to Ottawa where the power to take international action resides. Just a thought.