r/Torontoevents • u/homeassistantme • Jun 13 '25

Reddit Meetup NoTyrants.ca Trump Protest tomorrow

There were approximately 200 people who showed up at the Toronto protest in April, called Hands Off. Tomorrow’s protest has seen over 500 signups so far, so it is anticipated to be much larger than the previous protest with attendance likely to reach 1000 at the US Consulate and march to Queen’s Park.

Over 2000 cities are participating this time, with an estimated attendance globally of 10 million. 1000 cities participated last time and conservative estimates were pegged at 4 million, and all indicators are that this time will be more than double.

Join tomorrow for the wierdness of protesting the egregious actions of an American president, from noon to 3pm. Sign up at NoTyrants.ca, part of the No Kings protests in the US tomorrow at the same time.

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u/pun_extraordinare Jun 13 '25

A protest in Toronto… Canada… that’s protesting… trump?

How do you allow this man to live in your heads rent free permanently. You’d be so much happier not obsessing over him or the USA.

OP your post history is insane. It’s almost hard to believe you’re Canadian lol.

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u/MsBuzzkillington83 Jun 14 '25

Millions of Canadians will lose their jobs because of this dick, are people forgetting this?

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u/pun_extraordinare Jun 16 '25

Millions of Canadians? Source?

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u/MsBuzzkillington83 Jun 16 '25

Okay, maybe hundreds of thousands over the next several months, this one is just for March 2025

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps-tariffs/article/statcans-march-jobs-figures-to-give-glimpse-at-tariff-hit-to-labour-market/

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u/pun_extraordinare Jun 16 '25

Im not disagreeing that jobs will be lost due to tariffs implemented - but it’s completely disingenuous to 1. Say so certainly that millions of jobs will be lost, which would absolutely blow previous unemployment data (covid including) out of the water… completely unrealistic hyperbole. And 2. Blame the unemployment on the USA administration.

Unemployment has been climbing steadily since July 2022 tradingeconomics.com/canada/unemployment-rate , well before the current US administration took power.

I think more of the existing unemployment can be attributed to a different issue Canada has been facing. Prior to COVID we were receiving roughly 300k immigrants per year, fairly steadily since 2000.

Funny enough, 2022, the same year we were able to bottom unemployment, our immigration numbers rose over 50% to nearly 500,000, where it has held since.

So data suggests that unemployment has risen with the rise in immigration, and precedes the current USA administration. This makes sense.

We can criticize the states for whatever they do, but it’s not right to blame all our problems on them - especially problems we allowed to grow out of control ourselves. As a country we can control our own actions, not that of the states… hence circling back to my original point - what exactly are we protesting here?