Montreal chapter Robert McBryde leads us in chants on the streets of Ottawa. Peterborough-Kawarthas chapter activist Paul Cragg provided some great trumpet sounds as well! Photo by Council of Canadians Board member Dorene Bernard.
Council of Canadians chapters from coast-to-coast-to-coast converged in Ottawa this past weekend for our Groundswell annual conference and took to the streets on Saturday to say #ProtectOffshoreNSMikmaki and #StopKM!
We were led in the march by the slogans of Montreal chapter activist Robert McBryde! To see a video of the march with those slogans/chants and some powerful speeches made outside the Prime Minister’s Office by Dorene Bernard Andrea Harden Robin Tress and Harjap Grewal, please click here.
As a resource lots of protests to come, Robert has shared his slogans with us below!
SO-SO-SO Solidarité
Avec, avec, avec les Premières Nations!
This is not our land
This is Turtle Island!
Premières Nations…Premières!
First Nations first!
Who comes first?
First Nations first!
Free, prior, informed consent…
WE THOUGHT YOU KNEW WHAT THAT MEANT!
It’s not too late,
We’ll defeat the petro state!
Separate
Oil and state!
Justice Justin
Justice climatique!
When I say Morneau, you say DÉMISSIONEZ! (RESIGN)
Morneau DÉMISSIONEZ!
Morneau DÉMISSIONEZ!
Morneau DÉMISSIONEZ!
NO! NO! MORNEAU
VOLEZ PAS NOS IMPôTS!
Trans Mountain pipeline?
Non merci!
Trans Mountain Pipeline?
Je vois rouge!
Solar power/ Not petro power
People power/ Not petro power
Sunny ways mean solar power!
WHAT WILL WE STOP?
TRANS MOUNTAIN!
WHEN WILL WE STOP IT?
NOW!
Premières Nations? OUI! OUI! OUI!
Premier ministre? NON, MERCI!
System change
Not climate change!
Who’s gonna win?
We’re gonna win!
If it leaks, don’t build it!
Justin, Justin, there’s no trustin’ Justin!
Say it loud, say it clear
NO MORE PIPELINES HERE!
Just say no, Trudeau
No to Trans Mountain!
1,2,3 that pipeline’s not to be!
4,5,6, there’s no quick fix!
15 billion dollars
Down the pipe!
Ho! Ho! Trudeau
Souillez pas nos eaux!
Trudeau’s pipe dream
Is a nightmare!
Trudeau’s sunny ways
All gone down the pipe!
Tax money badly spent
We thought you knew what that meant!
No more pipelines!
No more stolen land!
Keep the oil in the soil!
B.P. it’s not for me!
Trans Mountain, it’s not for you!
If you drill, you’re gonna spill!
How does this sound?
Keep it in the ground!
B.P. you’ll see
Drilling’s not to be!
Trans Mountain and B.P.
Not in the east, not in the west!
B.P. you can keep your crud,
We don’t want your toxic mud!
When I say Trans Mountain, you say NO WAY!
TRANS MOUNTAIN: NO WAY!
TRANS MOUNTAIN: NO WAY!
TRANS MOUNTAIN: NO WAY!
No Way! No Way! No Way! No Way! Olé! Olé! Olé! Olé!
For our cash, cash, cash
Trudeau’s pipe dream
Is a nightmare!
When I say Justin, you say FOSSIL FOOL!
JUSTIN…FOSSIL FOOL!
JUSTIN…FOSSIL FOOL!
JUSTIN…FOSSIL FOOL!
Our dough au trou
TROU-DEAU!
1,2,3,4 TRANS MOUNTAIN NO MORE!
5,6,7,8 DRAW THE LINE, IT’S NOT TOO LATE!
Ho! Ho! Hey! Hey!
Trans Mountain…NO WAY!
Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho!
Trans Mountain? NO GO!
From the tar sands to the sea?
Trans Mountain’s NOT TO BE!
John Horgan
NOT Kinder Morgan!
Ho! Ho! Hey! Hey!
Climate justice…TODAY!
Trudeau’s sunny ways?
All gone down the pipe!
R-E-S I-S-T
Trans Mountain’s NOT TO BE!
When I say PETRO, you say STATE!
PETRO! … STATE!
PETRO! … STATE!
PETRO! … STATE!
Les sables bitumineux
Not good for me or you!
WHAT DO WE WANT?
A JUST TRANSITION!
WHEN DO WE WANT IT?
NOW!
Tax money badly spent
We thought you knew what that meant!
When I say Trudeau, you say COLOSSAL FOSSIL!
Trudeau: COLOSSAL FOSSIL!
Trudeau: COLOSSAL FOSSIL!
Trudeau: COLOSSAL FOSSIL!
Les dés sont pipés
Trans Mountain…No way!
What do you know Morneau?
Trans Mountain’s a NO GO!
When I say McKenna, you say DÉMISSIONEZ!
McKenna DÉMISSIONEZ!
McKenna DÉMISSIONEZ!
McKenna DÉMISSIONEZ!
When I say Trudeau, you say DÉMISSIONEZ!
Trudeau DÉMISSIONEZ!
Trudeau DÉMISSIONEZ!
Trudeau DÉMISSIONEZ!
Who needs daycare?
Who needs schools?
We own a leaky pipeline.
The petro state rules!
TRANS MOUNTAIN? KINDER MORGAN?
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
TRANS MOUNTAIN? KINDER MORGAN?
THEY ALL LEAK THE SAME!
Jamais plus, no more, no way José,
Let’s stop Trans Mountain, let’s do it TODAY!
Song: This land’s not your land
This land’s not your land
This land’s not my land
This land is Native land
It’s Turtle Island
From the Arctic Circle
To the Great Lake waters
This is unceded territory!
SONG: To the tune of My Bonnie lies over the ocean
Oil can spill into the ocean
Oil can spill into the sea
Oil can destroy the ocean
That’s why we’re behind you B.C.
B.C. B.C.
That’s why we’re behind you B.C. B.C.
B.C. B.C. That’s why we’re behind you B.C. B.C.
SONG:To the tune of Mary had a little lamb
Sunny ways mean solar power, solar power, solar power
Sunny ways mean solar power
And no more pipelines!
To the tune of Mary had a little lamb:
TRANS MOUNTAIN: NO WAY, NO WAY, NO WAY, NO WAY
TRANS MOUNTAIN: NO WAY / NO WAY JUSTIN/
#Groundswell2018
