Mock Funerals For The Future As Young Canadians Protest Harper Non-Policy

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TORONTO (CP) - Young people in 14 cities across Canada are holding funerals Wednesday - funerals for their future.

The newly formed Canadian Youth Climate Coalition organized the mock-funerals as a way to protest the federal government's inaction on climate change.

In Toronto, a cardboard casket was led into Grange Park by pallbearers dressed in all black.

CYCC founding member Jeca Glor-Bell then delivered a eulogy on the death of Canada's environment if meaningful action isn't taken by Stephen Harper's Conservative government. Glor-Bell says young people are the ones who are going to grow up and live the rest of their lives with the consequences.

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[John Gauger]

1. Interesting. Somewhat like the Veterans of Future Wars.

Ivy League kids in the 1930s demanded veterans' benefits from the government _before_ military service, saying that after the next war a good number of them will be dead and unable to collect at that time. Part of the isolationism that was swept away by Pearl Harbor.