Occupy Vancouver protests continued for the second day at the Vancouver Art Gallery on Sunday where participants say they'll stay camped out indefinitely.
The sense of community sparked by Saturday's peaceful protests has caused a buzz amongst dozens of campers who spent the night in the name of social change.
"I've been questioning just what exactly I'm doing with my life and I found no motivation, no will to do anything, and then I heard about the occupation and what it stands for and it just gave me reason to live," camper Daniyah Shamsi told CTV News.
Shamsi doesn't plan to camp in protest every night but others have vowed to stay indefinitely.
But critics of the protest are skeptical the Canadian movement, inspired by New York's Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, will last.
"I think that it will fizzle out quite quickly because they're just not living the deprivation in Canada that they are in some parts of the United States and in Europe," Ian Lee, economics professor at Carleton University, said.
Lee said that the mood in Canadian demonstrations is peaceful, unlike in the U.S. and Italy where protests turned violent. Lee said he thinks the protests here are more about showing solidarity for people in the U.S. and Europe who are experiencing high unemployment rates and were hit harder by the economic downturn.
But Occupy Vancouver organizers and participants are committed to continuing to spread their messages protesting corporate greed and financial inequality.
Police say they will continue to have a presence for as long as the crowd remains.
"There's been no arrests, no incidents of note. It's been a pretty positive experience so far," said Cst. Jana McGuinness.
With a report from CTV British Columbia's Penny Daflos
