Ursule Beaulieu from Rimouski, Canada has the opportunity to participate in a massive event. As part of the Women’s World March (WWM) on October 18, 2025… 20,000 people from all regions of Quebec gathered in front of the parliament building in Quebec City to demand women’s rights.

Support and encouragement

Since 2000, every five years, more than 160 countries have participated in the WWM. I proudly wore my 2000 pinafore: it bears several signatures and messages of encouragement from sisters, friends, and activists, as well as brooches symbolizing our commitments over the past 25 years. I have gathered 50 of them.

This year, I agreed to act as spokesperson for my region of Bas-St-Laurent. I have participated in interviews for radio, TV, and newspapers.

A clear message

We read in the local newspaper: Ursule Beaulieu of the Congregation of the Daughters of Jesus in Rimouski, an activist for social justice and the MWM since 2000, is calling on the government to build a strong social economy based on people, not profit.

 By walking together, we are sending a clear message: we reject poverty and the injustices that fuel it. We want a Quebec where every woman can live with dignity, a Quebec where wealth is shared.

This massive demonstration aims to denounce violence against women, and denounce poverty, which has become systemic violence, and denounce government inaction in the face of the environmental crisis. Let us oppose this with a vision of a just, equitable, and united world. Several men have joined us in demanding our rights.

In each of Quebec’s 32 regions, we have made a quilt to record our demands. We are connecting them together to present this large quilt to our government.

The culmination of this walk was marked by speeches, songs, music, slogans, and theatrical performances that crowned our march of solidarity. Our hearts beat as one during a moving testimony by Indigenous women.

Slogans chanted frequently during the march:

“So-so-so-solidarity-with-women-around-the-world!…

Still-marching-to-transform-the-world!…”

In the midst of this crowd of 20,000 people, it is with the support of my sisters, the Daughters of Jesus, that I felt solidarity and responsibility for our community commitments. By working to improve the human condition, isn’t it the humanity of Jesus that shines through our commitments?

Ursule Beaulieu, fj,

Rimouski, Canada