St. James Park, Toronto, occupation

I don't want to pay for the damage to St. James Park. Public space is meant for the use of the public, not for protesters, occupiers, or people who will disrupt the natural use of the space. In future let "occupiers" and their like, pay by the city demanding a deposit on all those who want to use public space as a place to
protest or disrupt the general use of that property. If the deposits are not forthcoming then charge the individuals with being a nuisance or public mischief or make up a new law to get rid of them.

"occupiers"

Are they really "occupiers"?

Originally the word to occupy meant that a foreign power, through war took command over a foreign land. Within Canada the word "occupy" has come to have an interesting meaning. For Native Canadians it means to claim land that you believe you have a legal claim to and to do so by illegal means including the use of illegal force and intimidation. For protesters of our economic system it means to illegally stay in a park, preventing it from being used for normal use by other citizens. For Palestinians it refers to Israelis livin or having villages in an area in which the Palestinians have some rights, but legally, probably no political rights (see The Jewish People's Rights to the Land of Israel, Amazon on Kindle, for the argument that legally the West Bank is Samaria and belongs to Israel). So to occupy now means either to illegally live on land, or illegally stay on land, or to live on land when others don't want you to be there. I suggest your readers' question what the Canadian occupiers really meant to imply when they chose to define themselves as occupiers of a park.