Clara Sorrenti has been described as "young, determined, (and) unapologetically communist". Running for the Communist Party of Canada in the 2018
Ontario Provincial Election, her campaign in the riding of London North
Centre has likewise been described as an "extremely energetic" uphill
battle for working class solidarity in the face of a ruthless austerity
regime and against a dangerously resurgent far-right. Tonight, she
speaks to Back in the USSR.
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I also want to say a few words on barbaric detention of
migrant children by American authorities, something which only recently made
the news when it was revealed that children were being forcibly separated from
their parents by immigration agents before being detained enmasse in what amount
to concentration camps for children.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave his usual lukewarm criticism
of the Donald Trump Administration and said something to the effect that “this
is not the way we do things in Canada”.
Well, he’s wrong. In recent years
Canada has detained hundreds of migrant children from the Middle East, West
Africa, Central America and the Caribbean.
In February 2017 the "Invisible Citizens: Canadian Children in
Immigration Detention," study produced by the International Human Rights
Program at the University of Toronto's faculty of law revealed that there were
48 children being detained at the Toronto Immigration Holding Centre alone at
that time, including infants and toddlers.
Putting migrant children behind bars is not just an American phenomenon,
regardless of what Justin Trudeau says otherwise. Canada does not have clean hands and, very
notably, continues to classify the United States as a “safe country” for
refugees, which it is most certainly not.
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