“In an extraordinary context, we can have extraordinary measures,” said Wilner Cayo, the organizer of the protest
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People hold up a sign as they attend a demonstration outside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's constituency office in Montreal, Saturday, May 23, 2020.“We are tired of empty words,” Cayo said. “We want to send a message that Quebec is a more generous society than this and we say to our governments: stop your little political calculations, concretely recognize these people, grant them permanent residence.
“The least you can do is be grateful for the work of these people and be able to speed up the process,” Boulerice said. “They literally risk their lives in our CHSLDs to take care of our seniors.”Earlier this month, Catherine Fournier, an independent member of the provincial legislature, tabled a motion to recognize the contribution of “hundreds of asylum seekers, mostly of Haitian origin” working as orderlies and called on the federal government to quickly regularize their status.
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