Democracy à la Braveheart?

Well, the University of Guelph is being pretty awesome these days.  First there was the flash mob; and now this:

It looked like a scene from Braveheart, with more than 250 University of Guelph students standing on a hill overlooking Stephen Harper’s campaign stop in the southwestern Ontario city Monday.
Instead of blue face paint like the storied Scots, their faces were striped red and white. Along the line, a lone bagpiper played an uplifting reel.
Soaking from the pouring rain, the students carried a banner reading: “Surprise. We are voting.” They chanted, “We will vote.”
It was a non-partisan rally, organizers explained, designed to fight apathy among young voters in an election where all parties are heavily courting seniors because of their commitment to casting ballots.

Looks like fun.

"We’re calling on students everywhere to celebrate the vote and ask themselves what kind of Canada they want to live in,” co-organizer Gracen Johnson said.

Seriously, this is twenty kinds of awesome. The more visible we are, the less they can ignore us!