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, queer 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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Draw the Line is a cross-country Day of Action taking place on September 20th in communities across Canada to resist Prime Minister Mark Carney’s anti-migrant, anti-Indigenous, and fossil fuel-driven policies. The Day of Action coincides with a global week of action calling for climate and economic justice worldwide.

Only months into his mandate, Prime Minister Carney is fast-tracking a billionaires-first agenda— promoting pipelines as “nation-building projects,” attacking migrants and refugees while scapegoating them, trampling Indigenous rights, gutting public services, oversight and democratic process, and pouring billions of public dollars into militarism and surveillance. Carney is appeasing Donald Trump, slashing our public services, and pandering to corporate interests. If Bill C-2 and C-5 are any indication of what’s to come under a Carney government, we have our work cut out for us. Draw the Line is an opportunity for us to build a historic alliance to fight back, and form coalitions that can continue to build beyond September 20th.

We are mobilizing five days after Parliament resumes and before the federal budget is tabled to send a clear message to Prime Minister Mark Carney that we are uniting from coast-to-coast to fight back against his harmful agenda and for a more just and equitable future for all of us.

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We will provide you with toolkits, resources, visuals, and ongoing training opportunities to support you in your action planning! We will also put you in touch with partners and other event hosts in your region.

In Ottawa, Toronto, Edmonton, Vancouver and other major cities across the country, thousands will march and rally to draw the line against injustice. In small towns and rural communities, hundreds will gather for rallies, community gatherings, and creative artistic actions drawing a line against harmful policies and for the world we deserve. We will soon release a toolkit with more action ideas and guidance, encouraging local alliance building. Unified visuals, coordinated messaging, and powerful cross-sectoral organizing will tie these actions together from coast-to-coast with action hosts receiving resources, training, toolkits and support.

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​​Draw the Line is a cross-sectoral effort initiated and co-convened by 350 Canada, Climate Action Network Canada (CAN-Rac), Migrant Rights Network, Seniors for Climate, Indigenous Climate Action, Sacred Earth Solar, World Beyond War Canada, and many other organizations from across so-called Canada. We are building a historic mobilization, uniting to rise to this moment and invite everyone that believes in justice and a liveable future to join us. Please fill out this form if your organization would like to endorse the mobilization and get involved.

This is more than a single mobilization. It is an invitation to community groups and social movements across the country to unite, to learn from each other, and to form and strengthen coalitions that will continue to build beyond September 20th. If you're in Quebec, you can also join the Pour la suite du monde rallies happening across the province on September 27, to demand real climate solutions and a better future.