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December 17, 2007

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In addition to injecting an anti-racist analysis into the prevalent discourse, the groups used the press conference to launch a series of actions that began with a picket organized by the Immigrant Workers’ Center, a labour rights organization based in Cote-des-Neiges. The group picketed the first Montreal consultation, which was held at the Cote-des-Neiges Intercultural Library. They denounced the commission for obscuring the real issues that immigrants face, mainly underemployment and exploitation in the workplace, as the real obstacles to integration, not the expression of religious or faith-based identity.