The most suspicious thing to me is that after a day of largely peaceful protests this "riot" occurred which was a handy justification for the huge security budget Harper's government had imposed:
Security was meant to be tight. Canada has estimated that the cost of security for the G20 and earlier G8 summit, in Huntsville, Ontario, would be a record C$1bn (£640m) for the two centres. Security costs for the 2008 G8 summit in Japan were US$381m (£211m), and $30m for the 2009 London G20 summit. The costs in Canada included 19,000 police officers and 1,100 private security guards, working behind a 3 metre (9ft) metal fence around the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
So the media gets to focus on how important that level of security was and safely ignore the legitimate protests, which to be honest they probably would've anyway.
And its not like Canadian Police haven't been known to use agent provocateurs in the recent past:
As with the G20 protests in London last year the police got to beat up unarmed protesters with impunity and abuse people's right to privacy but hey that only warrants a footnote compared to evil anarchists. And the people being protected at the G20 summits regularly do very evil things but again the media just can't find the space or time to cover that.
Canada has bigger problems that hugely expensive urban lockdowns can't really counter. Shitting on First Nations peoples in the past in addition to stealing their land and keeping them in poverty to this day is coming back to haunt Canada. It's economy relies on the export of large amounts of raw materials often in far flung parts of the country and it just so happens that the wilderness they dumped the First Nations in lies in between export hubs and the raw materials making blockade and insurgency a powerful tool to gain attention for the First Nation plight and strike back at those who would like to forget they exist.
Of course Canada's government is committed to addressing the root causes of this anger and improving the lives of the First Nations peoples so as to avert any need for an insurgency:
Speaking at a senate hearing in May, Canada's top general in Afghanistan suggested that the country's counterinsurgency war in Kandahar and its "whole of government" strategy has helped prepare Canadian forces and its civilian partners for such eventualities.
"If Canada were having an issue of insurgency," said Brigadier-General Jonathan Vance, "there would be a multi-discipline, multi-department operation with the government managing and directing carefully what its military and police forces would do".
Oh. The poor and dispossessed in Canada are an enemy to be destroyed just as Afghanis are. In addition to ominous suggestions of a brutal military response to the First Nations stopping a few white people getting rich it is likely the aftermath would resemble how the US dealt with Native Americans trying to get some justice themselves: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_incident#Aftermath
And so one of recent history's more successful genocides keeps on going.
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