Occupy Edmonton protesters held a march on October 29 to call for a Robin Hood tax.
They are calling on G20 leaders to immediately impose a 0.05 per cent tax on banks for financial transactions and currency trades.
They claim that profits made from the tax could go back to programs to benefit society.
"It's a good way to generate some revenue to deal with global poverty, to deal with climate change," spokesperson Chelsea Taylor told CTV News.
According to the group the Canadian government has shown a lack of leadership on a Robin Hood tax.
"Finance minster Jim Flaherty was over at the finance ministers meeting saying he would not put any kind of tax on the banks so that kind of lets us know where their priorities are," Taylor said, "They would rather see harmonized sales tax on you and me and they won't even tax the richest people, the richest institutions," she added.
The march started from a downtown park at 102 Street and Jasper Avenue, where the Occupy Edmonton movement has been camped out for two weeks.
Similar marches were held by other Occupy protesters in cities like Las Vegas, Montreal, Glasgow, Sydney and Berlin.
With files from Sonia Sunger
