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Earth Day rally draws massive crowd in Montreal; Tens of thousands gather downtown for annual march
A sea of people gathered in downtown Montreal for the annual Earth Day rally, under heavy police presence.
But the focus Sunday was on environmental issues, highlighted every year during Earth Day events around the world.
Opposition Leader Tom Mulcair joined the march, remarking on the environmental "debt" the modern world has accumulated in the last generation.
"We are creating the most important ecological, economic and social debt in history that future generations will have to bear," Mulcair said in French, as he signed a symbolic petition supporting the Kyoto Protocol. "We're asking future generations to clean the air, soil and water around tar sands, while we profit."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/04/22/earth-day-montreal-2012.html