Last week, the Community Development and Recreation Committee of Toronto City Hall heard from the Solidarity City Network and passed Motion 18.5. This motion will commit Toronto providing city services to undocumented people. Not only that, it will commit City council to advocate on behalf of undocumented Torontonians at the provincial and federal level. (read it here:
http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2013.CD18.5).
The motion now goes to Toronto City Hall on February 20th, 2013. This is where you come in. You can make Toronto keep its promise. You can visit, call, or even write to your local city councillor, and insist that they vote for this motion on February 20th.
Everything you need to know about contacting your councillors is right in this form.
But we need you to do a little more. After you've contacted your Councillor, we need you to show up at City Hall on February 20th, with your kids, your friends, and everyone you can bring along. Together, we can join the wave of sanctuary cities emerging across the United States and Europe.
To make sure you hear details of February 20th, sign up here:
http://eepurl.com/tzEq9 In 2006, Toronto City Hall promised to make city services available to the over 200,000 undocumented immigrants that live here. Yet for Isabelle who was not allowed into three shelters, Danielle who was randomly stopped by Toronto police and handed over to immigration enforcement and Andrea who couldn't get her children in to any Toronto schools for two years - these promises never came true. Our actions over the next two weeks can change that.