Canadian Experience

Big buildings, fast cars, nice people (the best among the Caucasians I have ever met ), and lot of money.

This is the experience I had in the first 2 days of Montreal, Canada. Second largest city in Canada after toronto, this is a beautiful place with old buildings and skyscrapers residing harmoniously. All was idyllic in this place except for the weather (its damp and cold right now). Or so I thought.

On the third day as I walked out of the hotel for a quick lunch, a lady approached me and my collegue and started speaking in french. When she realised that we dint know french, she swicthed into english effortlessly.  She wanted some money as she had lost her job and dint have enough to eat. She was crying.

In this "developed" country, a lady was begging on the road. She had lost her job may be at no fault of hers. No social security net to rescue her. No food to eat. And had to beg on the road to unknown strangers in that damp and cold day. I am not even sure she had someplace to sleep warm.

Money doesnt buy everything. But at the very least it should give enough heart in people to provide certain level of security.  Here, almost everybody has more than enough to spare for every poor person in the country if not the world a decent shelter. Then why is that not being provided? Capatilist nature of society? Or just plain natural greed?

Pathetic.