Voies vers la prospérité: Canada

Earlier this year, Mandy and Rebecca Wolfe, the creators of the ever-mushrooming Mandy’s chain, established the non-profit Welcome Collective, which was designed to work with the YMCA, city agencies and individuals assisting refugees and asylum seekers in gathering essentials for their residences. To date, it has helped about 200 families get established throughout the city. The group is always on the lookout for furniture and has trucks on the road to pick up and deliver. A network of volunteers has been set up to do the moving.

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/founders-of-mandys-salad-chain-put-out-the-welcome-mat-for-refugees

Quebec’s Families Ministry clarified their regulations in April, saying only those with refugee status can get a daycare spot. A spokesperson for the ministry told CBC News some information that could have caused “confusion” was circulating before that date. Two asylum seekers have filed a complaint with the Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission after being denied access to subsidized daycare. They say it prevents them from entering the workforce and beginning their lives in the province.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/refugee-claimants-asylum-seekers-quebec-daycare-cpe-1.4840527

Suu Kyi, once hailed as a hero and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her reform efforts, is now Myanmar’s state counsellor, a role roughly equivalent to prime minister. But she has been widely criticized for her failure to publicly denounce the ethnic-cleansing efforts against Rohingya Muslims perpetrated under her watch. The House of Commons passed a unanimous motion Thursday to revoke honorary citizenship from Aung San Suu Kyi over her unwillingness to condemn the genocide Myanmar’s military is carrying out against that country’s Muslim minority.

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/mps-vote-to-revoke-aung-san-suu-kyis-honorary-canadian-citizenship

Avec l’utilisation accrue d’outils d’intelligence artificielle dans les procédures d’immigration, des algorithmes pourraient être amenés à répondre aux questions actuellement posées par les douaniers et à se substituer au jugement humain pour déterminer qui peut rester ou non au pays. Un récent rapport de l’Université de Toronto met en garde contre les risques de discrimination qui pourraient découler de l’usage de tels outils.

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“The nuanced and complex nature of many refugee and immigration claims may be lost on these technologies, leading to serious breaches of internationally and domestically protected human rights, in the form of bias, discrimination, privacy breaches, due process and procedural fairness issues,” warned the 88-page report being released Wednesday by U of T’s International Human Rights Program and Citizen Lab. “These systems will have life-and-death ramifications for ordinary people, many of whom are fleeing for their lives.”

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/09/26/researchers-raise-alarm-over-use-of-artificial-intelligence-in-immigration-and-refugee-decision-making.html

The warnings are raised in a new report from the Citizen Lab and the Faculty of Law’s International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto. The report being released Wednesday cautions that experimenting with these technologies in the immigration system amounts to a “high-risk laboratory,” as many of these applications come from some of the world’s most vulnerable people. AI could be used, according to the analysis, to assess an applicant’s risk factor, predict the likelihood that an application is fraudulent, gauge whether a marriage is genuine or whether children are biological offspring.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-ottawas-use-of-ai-for-immigration-a-high-risk-laboratory-report/