Demands for Special Program to Regularize the Status of Asylum Seekers Working to Fight COVID-19As part of the effort to uphold the rights of asylum seekers and temporary foreign workers who are on the front line of fighting COVID-19, the just demand that the Quebec and federal governments create a special program that would regularize the status of these workers in this country deserves everyone's support. House of Commons e-petition e-2600 (Citizenship and Immigration), initiated by Arcelle Appolon from Montreal, opened for signature on May 12. It was sponsored by NDP Member of Parliament Alexandre Boulerice (Rosemont--La Petite-Patrie). As of May 28, it has been signed by 2,643 Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Those interested in signing it have until June 11 to do so. To sign the petition, click here. Petition to the Prime MinisterWhereas:
- We are fighting to protect ourselves and, above all, the most vulnerable, namely, seniors, people with a chronic illness and less fortunate neighbourhoods; - Despite the chronic insecurity of their precarious status in Canada, asylum seekers play a key role in essential services and, more specifically, in Quebec's Long Term Care Homes (CHSLD) and seniors' homes hit hard by COVID-19; - In exceptional circumstances, these individuals are contributing their skills, dedication and dignity to help us fight this pandemic while risking their own health and that of their family; and - Expelling these guardian angels from the country as soon as the battle is won would run counter to our values as Quebeckers and Canadians. We, the undersigned, Citizens of Canada and members of the Concertation haïtienne pour les migrantes, call upon the Prime Minister to show leadership by implementing a special program to regularize the status of asylum seekers working to fight COVID-19, and therefore supporting the health and safety of all Canadians, for humanitarian reasons.
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- The COVID-19
pandemic is an unprecedented situation for all
residents of Canada and requires a war-level
effort to face down this merciless enemy;