08/27/2025
Here are the five demands of the Draw the Line actions across Canada on September 20th:
Put people over corporate profit. Fund our families and communities.
Most of us can’t make ends meet— wages are low, rent is sky-high, groceries are unaffordable. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Carney has ordered a 15% cut to our public services while billionaires and corporations get richer off our suffering. Corporate elites attack the working class, particularly Black, Indigenous and racialized people, women, migrants, disabled, q***r and trans people, and the unemployed. This isn't an accident— it's corporate rule designed to extract wealth from working people. We refuse to accept poverty while the wealthy hoard billions. We call on the federal government to tax the ultra-rich, end corporate subsidies, and invest in the affordable housing, food, healthcare, transit, education, arts and culture, public services and good jobs that our communities need to thrive.
🌾 Refuse ongoing colonialism. Uphold Indigenous Sovereignty.
Canada is founded on settler colonialism and the exploitation of Indigenous peoples. Canada continues to enforce colonial violence through Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people, mass incarceration, child-welfare systems, the underfunding of services, and destructive development across Indigenous lands. The same government claiming reconciliation criminalizes land defenders, violates the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent, and prioritizes corporate profit over Indigenous rights. Indigenous worldviews offer brilliant solutions and knowledge for the world we all deserve. We refuse colonial violence and demand radical transformation away from capitalist systems, justice for MMIWG2S, the return of land to its rightful titleholders, and funding for Indigenous housing, languages, land-based economies, and Indigenous-led climate solutions. Land Back Now!
🛑 Stop blaming migrants. Demand full immigration status for all now!
Denied permanent status, migrants who grow food, build communities, and care for the sick face exploitation, wage theft and exclusion from services. Corporate elites scapegoat migrants to hide the real culprits: landlords, grocery monopolies, and bank CEOs profiting off our misery. Anti-migrant policies now threaten 1.2 million people with permit cancellation and deportation in 2025. Bill C-2 gives the government Trump-style powers to cancel permits en masse and reject refugees. Refuse to accept this division. Demand permanent resident status for all migrants.
🕊 End the war machine. Stand for justice and peace.
Canada is joining the global arms race and massively increasing its military spending alongside NATO partners while cutting funding from healthcare, housing, and public services. Canada is arming Israel’s genocide in Palestine and fueling global conflicts that enrich weapons manufacturers like Lockheed Martin. We refuse to let war profiteers prosper while people suffer. We demand an immediate two-way arms embargo on Israel, cancelling Canada’s plans to balloon its military budget, and a foreign policy based on diplomacy and peace-building.
🌍 End the era of fossil fuels. Protect Mother Earth.
Our planet is burning while fossil fuel companies rake in record profits and Prime Minister Carney greenlights new oil and gas projects. Canada is subsidizing corporate polluters while communities face floods, fires, and extreme weather. Trapped in debt and least responsible for emissions, the Global South suffers most from climate impacts, with millions displaced. We refuse to let Big Oil cook the planet while people suffer. We call for an immediate end to the fossil fuel era and a just transition to a 100% renewable energy economy that puts workers, Indigenous peoples, and frontline communities first. We demand Canada end all fossil fuel subsidies, kick fossil fuel companies and their lobbyists out of politics, make polluters pay, invest in a Youth Climate Corps and publicly-owned East-West electricity grid, and do its fair share globally by cancelling unjust debt and funding climate solutions in the Global South with grants, not loans.
