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<\/a>Montreal, 27 August 2019 — The Superior Court of Quebec has granted Construction Tisseur Inc. a legal injunction against the migrant justice network Solidarity Across Borders. Tisseur was awarded the federal contract to build the new migrant prison in Laval in June. The temporary injunction was sought in response to a festive information-picket, featuring live Klezmer music<\/a>, outside Tisseur\u2019s headquarters in Val-David last Thursday.<\/div>\n\u201cThis sets a very disturbing precedent. It is a huge concern for everyone in Quebec when a company uses the courts to silence critics. We remember Barrick Gold\u2019s legal harassment of \u00c9co-societ\u00e9 for publishing Noir Canada. And we see a clear connection: Canadian mining companies like Barrick Gold contribute to displacing people who then end up in immigration detention centres. We won\u2019t be silenced, there is far too much at stake,\u201d said Jane Doe of Solidarity Across Borders.<\/p>\n
Solidarity Across Borders received notice at 6:26 pm on Thursday, 22nd August of a court hearing the following morning. Solidarity Across Borders\u2019 legal representative requested a postponement to allow time to prepare a defence, but the postponement was denied. The temporary injunction, prohibiting Solidarity Across Borders, Jane Doe, and John Doe access to Tisseur\u2019s property at 1670 Route 117 in Val-David, remains in place until September 1st. The injunction could be renewed this week.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe organized the picket last week to reach out to the workers involved in this project. We believe that detention centres for migrants and refugees, and the immigration system they are part of, undermine labour rights. We wanted to engage with Tisseur workers about this during their lunch hour,\u201d said John Doe of Solidarity Across Borders.<\/p>\n
\u201cTisseur complained that we put up posters on their walls. We taped up silhouettes of friends who had been detained and deported, such as Lucy Granados, a single mother and worker from Guatemala who came to Canada after the US-owned factory she was working at moved to Asia, where labour was cheaper, and \u201cDaniel,\u201d a 17-year old boy who was detained at a Montreal high school and deported alone to Mexico,\u201d said Doe.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t think Yannick Tisseur was afraid of our temporary posters or non-stick tape, but he is clearly scared of these stories reaching his workers. One of the signs read, \u2018Tisseur, would you imprison your kids?\u2019 He doesn\u2019t want his workers to know that this prison will be used to imprison children.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tisseur began construction of the new prison, located beside the current Laval Immigration Holding Centre, on 5 August 2019. Scheduled to open in 2021, it is part of a $138 million investment into Canada\u2019s capacity to indefinitely detain and deport migrants, including children. Former detainees report serious mental health problems such as nightmares, depression, suicidal thoughts, difficulty sleeping, anxiety, and other symptoms related to post-traumatic stress syndrome.<\/p>\n
Background:<\/b> Statement against the new prison<\/b>: \/fr\/no-to-a-new-prison-for-refugees-and-migrants-in-laval<\/a><\/p>\n Source: <\/b> Montreal, 27 August 2019 — The Superior Court of Quebec has granted Construction Tisseur Inc. a legal injunction against the migrant justice network Solidarity Across Borders. Tisseur was awarded the federal contract to build the new migrant prison in Laval…<\/p>\n
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