Despite the rain trickling down Saturday morning, about 100 protesters gathered at La Fontaine park in Montreal with plastic rain ponchos, umbrellas, signs and flags to set off on a three-day march toward Roxham Road, in the Montérégie.
Refugee advocacy groups, migrants and supporters will be walking 73 kilometres to protest the recent closure of Quebec’s irregular border crossing to asylum seekers arriving in Canada from the U.S.
“It’s a symbolic walk for us,” said Maryne Poisson, the director of social initiatives at Welcome Collective, a group that helps asylum seekers in Montreal.
Poisson says she meets families every day that walked or hitchhiked from places like Brazil,
