Services such as education, health services, food security, dignified housing, public transit, public safety, legal aid, and municipal services are meant for everyone regardless of status. This means:

• Not asking for proof of citizenship or information regarding immigration status when people are accessing services
• In circumstances when identification is required, service providers will accept other forms of identification, including but not limited to: letters of reference/support, municipal ID, expired ID
• Apply human and labour rights equally to all people regardless of migration status, and value people based upon their humanity

The fear of debt, deportation, and/or death should not limit people’s access to services. We recognize that the responsibility of enforcing immigration law falls onto Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) alone, and is NOT the responsibility of service providers, health care workers, other police agencies, transit security nor the municipal government. As such service providers will:

• Treat all information regarding other peoples’ immigration status as strictly confidential, and never share it with CBSA or IRCC
• Create and ensure CBSA free zones, where public spaces such as hospitals, clinics, schools, parks, community centers, neighborhood houses, settlement services, food banks, libraries, shelters, construction sites, city hall and public transit are zones where CBSA are not called, welcomed, or allowed entry
• Ensure that municipal and public resources will not be used to support CBSA investigations or activities