Around a hundred migrant workers and allies gathered on Wednesday to call for more support and less scapegoating for the strain on housing and public services.
Among their demands was a federal regularization program, which would offer those living in Canada while undocumented, or in danger of losing their migration status, a path to permanent residency.
Immigration Minister Marc Miller promised to implement a program this time last year; instead, both the federal and provincial governments have cut quotas and frozen applications for some temporary and permanent migration.
Migrant advocates like Claire Launay, of Le Quebec c’est nous aussi, say with so many policy changes, “it really feels like an assault on immigrants.”
