International Students Demand Extensions of Work Permits!
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Summary
In light of the recent riots in LA that have been dominating the news cycle, I wanted to bring to light another non-citizen-led series of demonstrations surrounding the issue of immigration. This time in Canada, international students have been taking to the streets, demanding that their post-graduation work permits be extended to multiple years. In protest, they even set up an encampment and held it for 142 days.
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In light of the recent riots in LA that have been dominating the news cycle, I wanted to bring to
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light another non-citizen-led series of demonstrations surrounding the issue of
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immigration, this time in Canada. International students have been taking to the streets,
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demanding that their post-graduation work permits be extended to multiple years.
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in protest they even set up an encampment and held it for 142 days i understand tomorrow you
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guys are wrapping up the protest why listen to this uh yeah actually we have planned to wrap up
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this encampment for the temporary time because there is no government and mps and mpps are not
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giving us any meeting. So the Canadian government successfully deterred this encampment by basically
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not going to work and keeping parliament shut down. It's quite something isn't it? Protesters
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even went as far as heckling Prime Minister Mark J Kearney at Saskatoon.
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it's a brilliant plan really to just go up to the prime minister in the government and
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ask him for a work permit you know it's a very powerful call to action and very demand that
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Mark J. Carney will surely succumb to. But I will give them some credit though.
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These demonstrators have fit themselves really well into the Canadian culture of entitlement.