Interview with Mohan, including several clips from the opening of the march beginning in front of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education on Bloor Street and winding up in Dufferin Grove Park where the interview was recorded.
Recorded and produced by Jen Moore
On Saturday March 27th, several hundred people marched through downtown Toronto to demand a stop to detentions and deportations in Canada, as well as the use of security certificates. They called for the regularization of the approximately 500,000 undocumented migrants in the country.
In this two part interview, including some clips from the march, Mohan, a member of No One Is Illegal in Toronto, reflects on the march and talks about the repression that people without documentation are facing in the city today. The second part addresses spefically the Don't Ask Don't Tell campaign in Toronto as one strategy to make access to basic services and daily life a bit easier for those living in the city without papers. Josh Malo, a school board trustee in Toronto, opens this segment remarking upon the recent board decision to implement this policy within the Toronto school system.