Voies vers la prospérité: Canada

L’énergie qu’on déploie, dans la société québécoise, à affirmer que nous ne sommes ni racistes, ni xénophobes, ni misogynes a de quoi dérouter. Toute discussion d’un épisode d’intolérance semble devoir être accompagnée d’une nuance : ce sont des cas isolés, rassurons-nous, les Québécois, dans l’ensemble, sont égalitaires et accueillants.

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Over the years, as Ka Lee-Paine marked her life’s milestones — birthdays, graduation, her wedding — she celebrated not only with family, but with the people who helped to make that life possible. Lee-Paine arrived in Canada in 1979 as a 2-year-old refugee, along with her parents and a brother. They were among the first wave of Indochinese “boat people” welcomed to Canada under a then-new sponsorship program that allowed Canadians to directly resettle refugees caught up in humanitarian crises abroad.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/03/02/40-years-on-refugees-still-feel-warm-embrace-of-their-sponsors.html

Few government contracts have stood the test of time as well as a simply worded deal between Canada and its people that has not only lasted four decades but continues to bolster the country’s reputation for compassion. The 11-page sponsorship agreement, signed between Ottawa and the Mennonite Church on March 5, 1979, in response to the “boat people” crisis, became the blueprint for Canada’s private refugee resettlement program that has allowed Canadians to play an active role in helping refugees start a new life here.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/03/02/how-canadians-opened-their-hearts-to-refugees.html

Le maire Régis Labeaume ressort de son Sommet sur la main-d’œuvre tenu cette semaine avec l’appui de la communauté d’affaires pour convaincre les gouvernements de mettre en place des mesures spécifiques pour la région en matière d’immigration. En attendant de remporter cette bataille, les entrepreneurs ont tout intérêt à demeurer créatifs et ouverts pour continuer de recruter des travailleurs d’ici­.

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1156041/penurie-main-oeuvre-communaute-affaires-reinventee?depuisRecherche=true

A federal program aimed at attracting foreign workers to Atlantic Canada will be extended for another two years in a bid to grow the economy and address a shortage of skilled workers. The Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program was supposed to end this year, but federal officials say it will be extended to the end of 2021. Federal Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen made the announcement Friday in Halifax during a meeting of premiers and ministers concerning the Atlantic Growth Strategy.

https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/news/business/immigration-and-clean-power-top-agenda-for-federal-and-atlantic-officials-288712/

Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Glen McDougall said people who bring temporary foreign workers to Canada “should not dare” to follow the example of Hector Mantolino. “The Temporary Foreign Workers Program is not a licence to attract hard working nationals from other countries so they can be brought to Canada to be taken advantage of,” he said. Mantolino, originally from the Philippines, pleaded guilty in December 2017 to misrepresentation under provisions of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.

https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/news/regional/halifax-businessman-sent-to-prison-for-exploiting-temporary-foreign-workers-288708/