Around 50 people rallied outside Immigration Minister Marc Miller’s constituency office on Feb. 21 to call for a path to permanent residency for migrants living in Canada, with “no exclusions.”
For over two years, the Immigrant Workers Centre and Solidarity Across Borders has been pressuring the Trudeau government to uphold their 2021 promise of a comprehensive regularization program. Now that Miller has announced his intention to finally introduce a program, they want to see it apply to everyone in Canada who lacks status.
CKUT spoke to Solidarity Across Borders member Amy Darwish at the Feb. 21 protest.
When reached for comment, a spokesperson from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) said they are “engaging with academic experts and stakeholders” while they “explor[e] options for regularizing the status of undocumented workers who are contributing to Canadian communities.”
