A legal demonstration is planned to facilitate participation by immigrants and undocumented workers. Organizers are hoping for major mobilizations from the U.S. West Coast and Mexico. Many Canadian labor unions are gearing up for the protests. But instead of satisfying international capital's greed, it has only whetted its appetite for more. The United Electrical Workers passed a resolution supporting anti-FTAA protests.
Border police have wide discretion to stop entry into Canada.
For example, a van carrying New York activists to an organizing meeting in Quebec City was recently stopped at the border. The van was searched and political materials were seized and copied. No one made it to the meeting. This is consistent with the post-Seattle policing strategy that involves not only repression at demonstrations, but attempts to stop them from happening. Organizers for the Jan. 20 protests at George W. Bush's inauguration in Washington and the August 2000 demonstrations at the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles fought and won battles against local police, who attempted to keep demonstrators miles from their targets.