Joseph Brean, National PostPublished: Saturday, May 02, 2009
The arrest on Thursday of 15 Tamil Canadian protesters after they crossed a police line in front of the U. S. Consulate in Toronto seemed to mark the climax of a national rally -- from Montreal to Ottawa to Toronto -- against the humanitarian disaster in Sri Lanka's northern warzone.
But to organizers, the minor violence was little more than a last gasp of frustration at the rally's failure to attract any high-level political support. The true moment of crisis came the week before in Ottawa, with the failure of an alleged secret deal with a Conservative party operative that would have seen senior government ministers address the Tamil throngs on Parliament Hill, just as the Sri Lankan army was making a final push against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
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