Looking west on Wellington St. from Bay St., Christopher Hume wonders whether these fences erected for the G20 are there to keep us out -- or world leaders in.
CHRISTOPHER HUME/TORONTO STARJudging from the preparations now under way for the G20 meeting later this month in Toronto, the world is no longer safe for the leaders of the planet’s largest economies. Whether that’s true or not we’ll never know; they will be hidden away behind so much fencing and weaponry, they will be invisible.
Still, one can’t help but wonder if the point of all this effort and expenditure — $1.3 billion and counting — is to keep them in or us out.
In either case, it says much about the state of our civilization that leadership — or what passes for it — has grown so wildly disconnected, distrusted and disliked by those being led that Canada feels it necessary to beggar itself to cover the cost of its own worst fears.
Security is one thing; paranoia quite another. What’s happening now in Toronto has little to do with the former, and everything to do with the latter.
Crimbrary is thinking about a pool to guess how many places/times this fence will be breached. Let me know if you're interested. Tom
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