Toronto G20 protest hints at more to come

By Cameron French and Pav Jordan

TORONTO (Reuters) - Kicking off protests that will draw thousands to Toronto during two top-level summits next week, oil-smeared demonstrators urged Canada on Thursday to stop subsidizing fossil fuels and act against world poverty.

The group paraded through Toronto's financial core with an outsized papier-mache head of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, handing out fake C$1 billion bills that spoofed the price tag just for security at the summits.

"(Harper's) backing the wrong solutions," said Graham Saul of the Climate Action Network Canada, part of the umbrella organization that organized the march.

"We're here to say we need to stop subsidizing the problems, phase out subsidies for fossil fuels, and we need to invest in clean energy technology."

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