Tamil protest on the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto.

While one can sympathize with Tamils who have relatives in Sri Lanka, it does not follow that we should accept their recent behaviour, shutting down the Gardiner Expressway with their “protests”.

This is another situation in which immigrants drag the problems of their origin countries into Canadian society, involving people who have nothing to do with the situation. This is especially so with Tamil-Canadians, who now are causing distress and inconvenience to the general public, insisting that the Canadian government get involved in their native country’s strife.

It is not without reason the Tamil “Tigers” have been declared a terrorist organization, and their terrorist activity now involve using civilians as shields in their battle with the legitimate government of Sri Lanka. Such behaviour is now reflected in their Toronto demonstrations, where they put their children in harms way on the Gardiner expressway to further their case for government intervention on their behalf.

It behooves our local government and our police to arrest and charge the leaders of the group that blocked the expressway, and to send children’s aide officials to investigate and possibly charge parents who put their children’s lives at risk. I must wonder how long these people would survive if they showed this type of behaviour in their native country. They are trying the patience of fellow Canadians, and stand to lose any goodwill they might have gained otherwise.