We are the only national coalition of self-organized groups of migrants, undocumented people and international students. Over the last three months, we have written seven different letters to various cabinet members. I've done hundreds of interviews and reports. We started with minor policy adjustments: please extend CERB; make sure it gets to people without a SIN; change this health care law, and so on.
While we are talking, people are hungry and are dying. I've spent my time talking to people about how much lemon you need to put in a glass of water to kill your hunger properly because they have no income. I've spent my time talking to people about how they haven't left their house in three months because their children are sick and they're afraid of getting it, and there's no money or support for them.
We have spent our time talking to the families of those who have died. In each of these cases, no solution is quick enough, comprehensive enough and just enough other than permanent resident status for all, and it needs to happen immediately. Agri-food, domestic work, international students and undocumented people—we need a single-step solution or a way out of the crisis. This is an irreversible change that we've created in people's lives. There's no normalization—