Part of a march against austerity

This was today. Our provincial government has decided to look after
rich folks' purses by closing a lot of services used by poorer folks,
like libraries and health clinics. They've reduced funding for
university students. And they've instituted a tax on books. And
they've instituted a new tax which hits poorer people proportionally
harder than rich folks.

In a classic Let-Them-Eat-Cake statement about closing libraries, the
minister responsible for schools and libraries said something to the
effect of "Oh, no problem -- everyone uses e-books these days." Yeah.
Right.

A lot of us are pissed off. It was a good demonstration of that, too.