Scores of Canadian activists set out Saturday to join anti-war demonstrations at the Republican National Convention in New York, a Canadian Press report said.

About 140 protesters are traveling in an all-night bus convoy leaving Toronto on Saturday evening, while at least one other bus was leaving from Montreal.

"we are committed to bringing the message that we support the efforts of the American peace movement to end the occupation in Iraq," Jessica Squires of the Ottawa-based group Nowar-Paix said.

"While we may not have a vote in the American election, the actions of the American government affect us and the communities that we are part of."

US organizers say demonstrations on Sunday will bring together one-quarter million people, comparable to numbers at the 1968 Democratic convention during the Vietnam War.

Source: Xinhua