Voies vers la prospérité: Canada

La frontière canado-américaine a été le théâtre d’un nouveau face-à-face entre groupes identitaires de droite et groupes antifascistes, samedi, à Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle. La Sûreté du Québec (SQ) a effectué une arrestation pour voie de fait sur un agent lorsque des manifestants antifascistes ont tenté de bloquer l’autoroute 15 à pied. En raison de la présence de manifestants, la police a dû fermer l’autoroute 15 en direction nord à partir de 13 h 10 […].

https://www.ledevoir.com/societe/528265/demandeurs-d-asile-affrontements-entre-les-manifestants-a-la-frontiere

Quand le quotidien britannique The Guardian s’est lancé dans le projet « The New Arrivals », ses reporters ont parcouru toute la Grande-Bretagne, de Coventry à Cardiff, de Liverpool à Leicester, de Sheffield à Nottingham, à la rencontre des 38 517 personnes qui avaient demandé l’asile dans le pays en 2016. Mais c’est sur un père et un fils, à Derby, au nord de Londres, que la journaliste Kate Lyons s’est arrêtée, très émue.

http://www.lemonde.fr/les-nouveaux-arrivants/article/2018/05/20/en-allemagne-en-grande-bretagne-et-en-espagne-l-admirable-resilience-de-familles-de-refugies_5301942_5084811.html

Around 100 people, many of them affiliated with one of Quebec’s growing number of far-right groups, gathered at the Canada-U.S. border crossing at Lacolle, Que., to protest how governments are handling the flow of asylum seekers entering Canada outside official ports of entry. There have been no public reports of ISIS members crossing at Roxham Road and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada says that all entrants undergo security and criminal checks. But far-right groups in Quebec have used the illegal crossing as a rallying issue in an attempt to grow their membership.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-canada-border-crossing-protest-1.4670852

A protest organized by the far-right group Storm Alliance to denounce the Canadian government’s tolerance of what that group calls “illegal immigration” attracted about 250 people to the Lacolle border crossing Saturday afternoon. A slightly smaller counter-protest organized by the migrant justice group Solidarity Across Borders managed to delay the Storm Alliance event, but in the end there was no confrontation, as police maintained a buffer zone between the two groups throughout the afternoon.

http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/far-right-and-anti-racist-groups-prepare-to-face-off-at-lacolle-border-crossing

The mayor of Toronto says the city will need to open an emergency reception centre over the next seven days to deal with an influx of refugees claimants. The federal and Ontario governments should take action to relieve the growing pressure refugee claimants are putting on the city’s shelter system, John Tory said Friday, as he asked for support with the issue. Tory said 10 new refugee claimants are added to Toronto’s shelter system each day, and 334 additional refugee claimants have arrived since he last appealed for help on April 26.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/toronto-asks-ottawa-province-for-help-to-deal-with-influx-of-refugees-1.3935871

Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen travelled to Nigeria this week as a part of a federal government effort to contain the surge of asylum seekers – most of whom are Nigerian – at the Canada-U.S. border. He said Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama and other senior government officials committed to deter Nigerians from using the U.S. as a transit point to cross into Canada and claim asylum. The minister also spoke with a number of Nigerian media outlets, including radio stations, to dispel the “myths” about Canada’s asylum system.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-nigeria-will-discourage-citizens-from-seeking-asylum-in-canada/