Pro-Life rally in 2008: 8,000 attendance.
Anti-Prorogue rally in Toronto: 7,000 attendance.
I suppose if the Canadian public is really mad as hell about Harper's move to prorogue parliament it should only be a matter of time before this country outlaws abortion. I mean, it only makes sense... How can numbers lie?
Actually the Toronto rally had about 2000 in attendance.
ReplyDeleteOuch. That thought will be rough on the people from Dammit Janet! Who wanted to appear at an anti-Prorogue protest dressed as a "blue fetus".
ReplyDeleteLet's see: 8000 Canadians anti-abortion against 25000 pro-democracy, who are you kidding?
ReplyDeleteHey Eric, got a photo to back up those numbers?
ReplyDeletePlease do post it here. I'd like to see where you got that idea.
how many do you need?
ReplyDeleteNumbers of "Canadian public" are Canada-wide, but if you had read the paper you would have known that.
More here.
"Let's see: 8000 Canadians anti-abortion against 25000 pro-democracy, who are you kidding?"
ReplyDeleteMy guess is that 25000 pro-prorogue number is the total for all of Canada. 8000 was the number of pro-life demonstrators in Ottawa alone during a particular protest.
I respectfully submit Eric that if we wanted to compare oranges to oranges we would look at protest numbers limited to geographical areas. If we did the point is still a sound one. These Pro-prorogue protests have garnished more media attention than other similar conservative causes have received with higher numbers protesting.
Am I suggesting a media Liberal bias? You betcha.
It's not apples and oranges when comparing Canada-wide on both demos, or is it? And you used Canadian public in your post, not me.
ReplyDeleteMsM biased? I couldn't agree more, but generally that's a corporate bias in favour of conservative values, don't you think?
"It's not apples and oranges when comparing Canada-wide on both demos, or is it? And you used Canadian public in your post, not me."
ReplyDeleteEither I'm getting confused or you're getting confused.
Ottawa March for Life Protest attendance: 8,000. (This was in Ottawa on Parliament Hill)
Toronto Pro-Prorogue Protest attendance estimate: 7,000
Canada wide pro-prorogue protest estimate you gave: 25,000. If you want to compare "oranges to oranges" we should compare a Canada wide pro-life protest to this number - like LifeChain which saw 80,000 participants nationwide in 1997.
The links by the way you gave don't seem to reference that number by the way. Please post the link to the 25000 reference at your leisure for everyone's knowledge.
I'm not gonna give the globe and mail site any traffic, so pass. You could of tried linking directly to a picture or three that were wide zoomed out shots assuming there is any there.
ReplyDeleteNone of those flickr pics had 25,000 in a pic let alone fit 7,000 since none of them were zoomed out to provide clarification. I didn't care to have to shift through pages of up close shots with sparse "wide" ones.
That isn't to say that there couldn't of been 7,000 but it is to say that I doubt it was anything near 25,000. And 25,000 across the country? They really couldn't draw out more? Given all the media hype?
All this over 17 days of missed QP?
Hmm.