Papers, s'il vous plaît

Created for #ResistJam, Papers, s'il vous plait addresses immigration, discrimination, and cultural values in Canada. The game takes place in the months following the 2019 federal election during which the winning party ran on a populist platform. As an employee of Citizenship and Immigration Canada you are tasked with grading the newly implemented Canadian Values tests—an additional screening measure imposed by the new administration to evaluate the 'values' of prospective immigrants. Players never see the would-be Canadians whose lives they are shaping; instead they encounter only the impersonal bureaucracy of paperwork and answer keys. All the while those 'values' they are tasked with evaluating seem to shift and change to suit some larger agenda.

Papers, s'il vous plait explores the coded language of 'Canadian values' and what it means to resist in a future that is increasingly and disturbingly realistic.

Created by Steve Wilcox, Rob Parker, & Shawn Dorey.