Une alliance nationale visant à fournir une base factuelle pour l'établissement et l'intégration des nouveaux arrivants, ainsi que pour la promotion de communautés accueillantes au Canada
La revue de presse fournit des liens aux articles récents et archivés, à la fois en anglais et en français, sur l’immigration et la diversité lesquels ont été publiés dans les média locaux et nationaux. Il y a également des articles internationaux. Cette section est mise à jour hebdomadairement.
National Post – Bernier Promises to Cut Immigration, Build Border Fences in Platform Speech
Maxime Bernier says that if he becomes prime minister, his government would slash immigration and refugee numbers, build a fence to block asylum seekers from walking across the border, and end a program that lets immigrants sponsor their families to join them. With his People’s Party of Canada barely touching two per cent in opinion polls, the Quebec MP chose to hit one of his key themes at an event in Mississauga, Ont., a western suburb of Toronto.
Windsor Star – Federal Agriculture Minister Talks Immigration Changes to Keep Farm Workers
Greenhouse and mushroom operations desperately need more workers, especially with Ontario’s greenhouse vegetable industry expecting to add 1,900 more acres and 7,900 jobs in the next 10 years, Canada’s agriculture minister was told in Leamington. Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau met with greenhouse and mushroom industry leaders locally to address the labour shortages and to talk about the federal government’s new agri-food immigration pilot program that offers foreign workers in those industries, as well as in meat processing, a chance to become permanent residents.
CBC News – Leamington Growers Support Pilot That Gives Temporary Foreign Workers Path to Residency
Marie-Claude Bibeau, federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, visited Leamington, Ont. Tuesday to talk about the three-year “Agri-Food Immigration Pilot.” Between visits to a greenhouse and a mushroom farm, she met with the Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Growers (OGVG) association. In attendance was Aaron Hamer, president of Highline Mushrooms in Leamington, who was supportive of the pilot. “Our business, since it was founded in 1961, has been supported and built with the help of an immigrant and refugee community,” he said. “There’s a permanent problem…[that not enough Canadians]…want to work in agriculture.”
Toronto Star – Justice Minister Swats Back at Ontario Attorney General Over Refugee Legal Aid Spending
The Ontario government’s rejection of shared responsibility for legal aid is an “excuse for spending cuts” that will leave many of the province’s most vulnerable at greater risk, federal Justice Minister David Lametti said Tuesday. The federal government has consistently recognized the importance of working with its provincial counterparts on matters relating to legal aid, Lametti wrote in a letter dated Tuesday to the Ontario attorney general. “It will perhaps come as no surprise that I strongly disagree with the path that Premier (Doug) Ford has chosen,” he wrote.
CBC News – Canada Needs More Empathetic, Responsive Immigration System, Panellists Say
Canada’s immigration system needs to be become more empathetic and responsive to today’s challenges, according to a panel of immigrants living in New Brunswick. Discussing issues such as family reunification, entrepreneurialism and training certification, four panellists on the CBC New Brunswick Political Panel Podcast described what they see it as a rigid, outdated system. Kjeld-Mizpah Conyers-Steed, the executive director of the New Brunswick Student Alliance, said her fellow panellists’ stories of difficulties navigating the system show a need for newcomers to be at the policymaking table.
Toronto Star – Colombian-Canadians Rally for Peace Amid Rising Violence Back Home
It was with great fanfare that the Colombian government signed a peace deal in 2016 with rebel fighters, heralding a new beginning for the South American country after decades of war and conflict. But peace has proved elusive amid rising bloodshed, a spike in killings of civil rights leaders and former guerrillas by paramilitaries and criminal groups and the slow pace of reconciliation. Almost three years after the peace deal was signed, Colombian-Canadians will take to the streets on Friday as part of a global effort to draw attention to the situation in their homeland.
