The walks highlight grievances from marginalized groups who have been subjected to oppression throughout their history
Bilal Malik is nearing the end of a roughly 15-day, 380-kilometre 'Freedom March' from Toronto to the steps of Parliament Hill in Ottawa. By putting one foot in front of the other, sometimes slowly and sometimes with quicker strides, Bilal Malik says he desperately hopes the government will listen to what he has to say.
“I hope the walk will have even a little bit, even one per cent difference … They have to do something,” said Malik, who hasn’t been able to reach his family for three years since he moved to Canada from China’s northwest province of Xinjiang. Malik says his walk is all he can do to honour his family, educate Canadians and to persuade Trudeau “to do the right thing.”
Lorraine Netro and Jacqueline Shorty Whitehorse are also walking. Their 2,000-kilometre trek from Whitehorse, Yukon, to Kamloops, B.C., is to honour what are believed to be the remains of hundreds of Indigenous children at former residential school sites.
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