Normally I'd say yes. Especially because it's Canadians who have devised a number of really fun blocs, including the League of Radical Toy Airplane Pilots, for the upcoming protests against the Free Trade Area of the Americas. (The FTAA, or ALCA if you prefer a more melodious acronym, is an attempt to broaden NAFTA and circumvent the roadblocks protesters have put in the way of the WTO's "progress" towards loosening governments' abilities to protect their citizens from damage done by multinational corporations.)

Then again, I got a collect call from Evan this morning. The answering machine picked up before I was awake enough to grab the phone and I missed the call, but I found out through friends that Evan got turned away at the Canadian border as he tried to get in. In addition to putting up a wall around Quebec City, where the protest will be, the Canadian government is cracking down on Americans trying to get into the country, for a change. They're checking past arrest records, and Evan's must have stuck out like a red thumb, what with his deportation from Prague, activities with the Independent Media Center and the logging road blockades in northern California, and all... The irony of this is that Evan could easily apply for Canadian citizenship, seeing as his father was a Canadian citizen and never naturalized as an American. He just can't do it now, when it's inconvenient for capital.

(Evan, if you're reading this, I apologize profusely. If I had made it to the phone on time I would have accepted the call, but Laurie and the answering machine got to it first, and by the time I picked up the receiver the automated voice clicked off and hung up.)