QS wants all essential workers given status
This isn’t a city-level story, but a lot of the people concerned live here. Canada was to give residency to asylum seekers who have done essential jobs through the pandemic, but Quebec has negotiated to restrict the offer only to health workers, with various other narrowing-down criteria to be met. Québec solidaire wants all essential workers to be given the same status, but the UN refugee agency has applauded the offer as it stands.
A demonstration was held Saturday outside the Montreal office of Justin Trudeau in favour of widening the criteria, but it seems to me they should be ragging on the Legault government, not on the feds.
Daniel 07:13 on 2020-08-17 Permalink
This is extremely disappointing, though not surprising.
Hard-working, probably in large part French-speaking people(!) aren’t given a hand by a rich country/province that could use some labor in these areas of the economy?
It’s hard to feel that this is anything other than racist, since many of these people are probably not white.