The MLPC joined the demonstration and calls on all Quebeckers and Canadians to join the denunciation and demand justice for Haitian refugees. [...] The actions of the Biden administration are all the more condemnable taking into account the fact that these Haitian refugees fled from Haiti because of the chaos created through the interference of the U. [...] We wrested our independence through struggle,” he said, adding that following its independence France had demanded that Haiti compensate slave owners for the loss of their “property” — “their” slaves — an amount equivalent to $25 billion today, and that this had deprived the country of the necessary funds to invest in education, health and the economy. [...] Referring to videos which show the conditions people were being forced to live under at the border, “sleeping on the ground with their children,” of women giving birth in the grass and not having anything to eat or drink for at least four days, and of then being deported shows the reality of what the U. [...] “The Canadian government participates in various bodies such as the Core Group, against the interests of the Haitian people, just as it does against the peoples and the sovereignty of other countries, including Venezuela,” she said, and expressed the outrage of Canadians and Quebeckers at what is taking place at the southern U.
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