Police arrested a handful of people who were part of a small but vocal group demonstrating Monday at the 2010 Games ceremony in Vancouver.

One protester even stormed the stage at the unveiling of a giant countdown clock at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

The man shouted the F word and the date 2010 before being wrestled off the stage by security and taken away by police.

Holding signs saying "Stop the Clock" and "Housing Before Games," protesters were raising their concerns about the problem of homelessness in the Vancouver area.

CTV British Columbia reporter David Kincaid, on board Chopper 9, said many of the protesters are members of anti-poverty groups from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

"They have already unveiled their own clock," said Kincaid, "and what they are counting up to is what they perceive as a threat to the homeless population in the Downtown Eastside and Greater Vancouver. They worry that unless the various levels of government take appropriate action in the next three years, we will triple the City of Vancouver's homeless population."