We are not a Crisis, We are in Crisis!Undocumented Migrants Set Up Camp Outside Refugee Board to Call for Comprehensive, Inclusive Regularization ProgrammeWhat: All Night Camp for Status for AllWhere: 200 René Levesque Boul. W., MontrealSaturday, March 18th 2023 at 8pmOpening: Out of the Shadows
- Testimonies by Undocumented Migrants and Refugees
- Projections onto the Immigration and Refugee Board
- Solidarity Serving for Unhoused Community
- Music and Lights
Sunday, March 19th, 2023 at 9amPress Briefing: We are not a crisis, We are in crisis!
- Spokesperson, Solidarity Across Borders
- Mamadou Konaté, Immigrant Workers Centre
- Florence Bernard, Caring for Social Justice
- Amy Darwish, Comité d’action de Parc Extension (CAPE)
- Shi Tao Zhang, Coalition étudiante pour un virage environnemental et social (CEVES)
Migrants and refugees will set up camp outside the Immigration and Refugee Board to highlight the urgency of their situation and explain their expectations for a fully inclusive and comprehensive regularization programme. This is part of a pan-Canadian day of action to press the Trudeau government to follow through on a promise made in December 2021 to regularize the status of undocumented migrants.Undocumented and other migrants with precarious status grow food, take care of children, the sick and the elderly, and are integral to communities across Quebec and Canada. Yet they are denied equal treatment and access to rights and services, such as healthcare, because they do not have permanent resident status. A regularization program that grants permanent resident status to undocumented people could lift half a million people out of poverty, give them the tools to protect themselves against abuse, ensure gender justice, unite families, and correct a historic wrong.In a gesture of solidarity with other communities on the frontlines of real crises – housing, affordability, climate change, war – a meal will be prepared and served to the unhoused community.
