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Hibapress / Radio-Canada
Thousands of Canadians gathered on Sunday in Winnipeg, Montreal and Halifax to denounce the political, economic and cultural threats of the Trump administration.
In Montreal, the demonstration 51st statement is nowhich was held at the foot of Mont Royal, responded to the invitation launched by author Alain Saulnier in an open letter published in the press on March 24. His call to everyone, co-signed by more than 300 public figures, invited Quebecers to withstand American pressures and to reject the idea of a possible annexation from Canada to the United States.
It’s been weeks and weeks that a little everyone is locked up at home, paralyzedlaunched Mr. Saulnier on Sunday, evoking the various pricing threats of the American president.
These people, they have to come out, and this is the reason for today’s rally.
Several people spoke in the afternoon. Two former ministers of culture and communications of different political allegiances, Louise Beaudoin and Christine St-Pierre, exchanged the microphone to invite people to make the American threat.
The author Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, who affixed her signature to Mr. Saulnier’s letter, was also there. It feels good to be together, to break solitude and to reclaim the sense of power that we haveshe explained.
Dre Joanne Liu, the pediatrician of the Sainte-Justine hospital whose conference on humanitarian aid challenges was canceled by the University of New York, as well as Andy Remarais, an Amazon worker dismissed in the wake of the closure of all the company’s warehouses in Quebec, were one of the faces recognized in the crowd.
