Protestors call on gov't to do more for asylum seekers risking their lives on pandemic frontlines

TORONTO -- A group of protestors set up camp outside of the Prime Minister’s constituency office in Montreal on Saturday, calling on the government to do more to help asylum seekers currently risking their lives working in long-term care homes stricken by COVID-19.

There are at least 800 asylum seekers currently working as orderlies in long-term care facilities in Quebec, according to Frantz Andre of Action Committee for People Without Status, the group behind the protest.Although his face was on some of the posters waved by protestors, he couldn’t be at Saturday’s demonstration.Like thousands of others, he crossed into Quebec on Roxham Road, the country's busiest illegal crossing, which was shut down in March.

“A lot of them are from Haiti and other countries and they don’t have the choice but to be working because they don’t have the financial potential to take care of themselves,” heA Haitian man who attended the protest told CTV News that his wife feeds and bathes seniors in a long-term care facility where the virus has claimed 18 lives.

“We cannot open the door to say ‘if you come illegally, if you find a job that's okay, I will accept you as an immigrant’,” Quebec Premier Francois Legault said in a press conference. “That’s not the way it works.”

Id do more for them.. a bus ticket home

A made for blunder by Trudeau. Just wait for virtue signalling BS for the message created. You know it’s going to cost us citizens. That’s for sure

Sorry about your luck FREELOADERS.

Lmaoooooo

I guess the welfare check is not enough..... Go home if you don’t like it.

Let me get this straight. Quebec with a recent history of BAD care homes. Has been giving important jobs to non citizens. Do asylum seekers get the same rate of pay that a Canadian citizen would?

Give them CERB applications and waterfront condo! Your boy Bryce is showing off some siiick pads tomorrow with complimentary merlot samplers . Best part is if they have kids the can apply for an extra $400 a month, if that kid earned any money ever.. more free money!!! Sicknasty

They are lucky they are in the country and have a paying job. When do we close the borders. We have more Africans and Chinese in Canada than in their home countries

Build a wall!!

All 5 protesters, but the Trudeau Liberals will dish out more money all the same.

Asylum seekers do not come from the USA and cross into Canada illegally. Those are known as new welfare recipients.

Irregular criminals should be deported.

Frontline workers are risking their lives. Asylum seekers have a choice FFS. Why give press to 3 protesters CTV?!?!

Canadian citizens do it everyday, they don't protest they do their job!

Send asylum seekers back to their home countries. Problem solved.

That twisted ! They did know it was for a non-resident ? I understand the strategy, but

Do more by sending them back where they came from.

TD bank put vulnerable Canadians at risk of bank fraud and refused to fix their anti-fraud system. TD teller confirmed that funds from a certified check had reached and deposited in my account, which I later found not true at all. I was tricked to send money to the scammer.

I was under the assumption you needed a SIN to work in Canada? There are plenty of Canadians looking for work... why are illegals getting pay checks?

Why are these illegals working in Canada?

I see 5 people. Big protest! Just clickbait...

This I support fully and I call on Freeland to so the right thing, these people are more useful to Canada and more than the Saudi she personally helped which they have much use as a chewed gum.

Illegals should only be given a one-way plane ticket out of Canada. Even that is too generous but worth it.

Send these illegals back!

They are all ethnic. Charming. They come here and then complain. Buy them tickets to go home

Lots of room on the plane to send them back

These people need to get a life. Morons that want others to pay for them. No thanks

Six persons with three banners in the shot. No mention of number of demonstrators in piece. Worthy cause, but is that a national story?

Here’s a thought go back where you came from. You are here illegally! No doubt all of you are collecting the CERB for you and all 10 kids each! Piss off

If they really care they will let the asylum seekers move in with them and financially support them. Actions speak louder than words so it’s time to step up.

Gfy , we can’t afford them , this is fakenews

Why waste a penny on those criminals coming into Canada. Treat them like the criminals they are and lock them up! If they survive ship them back!

We dont want the FREELOADERS. so all the paid protestors can leave with them bye..

Really. Illegaly entered hired by private carr home operators who manipulate and grossly under pay to hire untrained people. Enter legally if have education and knowledge.

So what!? The only problem is with medias like you and the government you sleep with, withholding life saving medications and treatments that would end all this fear mongering and lost of life! You have blood on your hands. YOU ARE THE SICKEST !

Hate to see the pandemic approaching Summertime.

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