Just so we evaluate Scotiabank fairly, let’s note what the protest was about:
They wanted to raise awareness about Scotiabank being the largest non-Israeli investor in Elbit, a contractor accused of making cluster munitions — which are banned globally under the terms of a 2008 treaty signed by over 100 countries.
Elbit Systems Ltd. (US:ESLT) has 346 institutional owners and shareholders that have filed 13D/G or 13F forms with the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). These institutions hold a total of 8,367,716 shares. Largest shareholders include Clal Insurance Enterprises Holdings Ltd, 1832 Asset Management L.P., Vanguard Group Inc, Altshuler Shaham Ltd, VGTSX - Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund Investor Shares, Invesco Ltd., PPA - Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF, Jpmorgan Chase & Co, Meitav Dash Investments Ltd, and VTMGX - Vanguard Developed Markets Index Fund Admiral Shares .
I hate to say it, because it sounds like conspiracy-mongering, but the reason is “Money”.
A lot of people want the narrative to go a certain way, and those people have a lot of money and thusly a lot of influence. That they’re losing control of the narrative has caused them a kind of narcissistic injury, and they’re lashing out.
Donations from the billionaire class (and the threat of their cessation) cost people their jobs at universities last year. They threaten student protests right now. This doesn’t seem the least bit conspiracy-mongering to me.
Owners of Scotiabank here specifically but really most of owners of large enterprises though
Looks like scotiabnak is materially invested but I bet most owners just shill whatever the geopolitics dictates as they want want to piss off their hosts. parasites know better.
That bank doesn't care, it is a legal entity, but the owners do because they got money tied up and they use their lapdogs against people they don't like exposing them.
I guess it’s just an innocuous coincidence that you’re saying mysterious “banker” “parasites” are using their “money” and their “lapdogs” to attack a university for… unspecified reasons? in order to prevent themselves from being “exposed”?
Yes ruling elites are parasites leeching off the labour of working people, then use gained wealth to benefit themselves and drive narrative benefial to them. If peasants step out of line, they will use coercive power of the state to suppress any such "misconduct"
The 27-year-old journalist was arrested on April 15 while covering a sit-in at the Scotiabank on McGill College Ave
Furthermore
the protesters, processed in a room provided by Scotiabank (typically arrestees are taken to a police station for processing, but, in an unusual move, the bank offered police the use of their offices)
This didn’t happen at a university. It happened at the bank, specifically protesting the bank itself for its unethical investments.
First you need to start working on your reading comprehension, second if you’re gonna be so freaking wrong maybe you should done down the condescension, third even if you were right that the bank was on campus, it would still have happened on bank property.
The branch is on McGill AVENUE not on McGill CAMPUS.
CUT(V) has been a target of the SSPVM ever since the 2012 student strike. They were there, covering the protests, every. single. night. Right at the front when people were getting peppered, gassed, and beaten. Themselves getting harassed, attacked, beaten multiple times.
And they were doing it live (some of the first people to do such live streams). Their courageous and tireless coverage was a big part of why the protests evolved into a broader popular uprising. People saw live, every single night, what those students were going through. The SSPVM could never forgive them and still hold a grudge to this day.
All this to say, I’m not surprised in the least by this fascist behaviour.
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