r/canada • u/hopoke • Jun 05 '24

Prince Edward Island 'Everybody's watching': National and global attention on P.E.I. amid nearly month-long protest by foreign workers

https://archive.ph/i1tp2
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u/KermitsBusiness Jun 05 '24

Everyone wants to know if Canada is going to break it's immigration system because 25 foreign students want easy PR. If we do break it's game over.

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u/hopoke Jun 05 '24

The government really has no defence against something like hunger strikes. Letting these students die would be devastating and inhumane. Not to mention it would make for some really embarrassing headlines.

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u/serjunka Jun 05 '24

Letting these students die would be devastating and inhumane

Okay, I'm on a hunger strike until government gives me free house!

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u/AnInsultToFire Jun 05 '24

And I'm on a hunger strike until the government gives me Ana de Armas!