Early Friday morning, the Western Canadian “On to Ottawa Caravan” kicked off its journey as a B.C. delegation left Vancouver on route to the Peoples’ Social Forum. The beginnings of the caravan are modest: a single vanload of activists leaving the west coast and three thousand kilometers of Trans-Canada Highway ahead. However, as vehicles join the caravan in each province we pass, leaving their towns and neighbourhoods to gather in Ottawa, it won’t stay modest. At the end of the caravan, we will join together with other activists, thousands strong, united by our desire to build a better country and a better world. But why do we call our caravan “On to Ottawa?”