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.
Toronto Star – Refugees’ Rights Not Breached Despite 4-Year Wait for Asylum Decision, Court Rules
A refugee judge waited almost four years before rejecting the asylum claim of a Mexican family on the last day of his job, but the Federal Court has ruled the delay was not “severe” enough to breach the claimants’ charter rights. The 26 members of the extended Mexican family had their last hearing on Dec. 6, 2011. Immigration and Refugee Board member David McBean didn’t deliver his decision on the family, who had settled in Toronto, until Oct. 14, 2015, the same day his government appointment expired.
CBC News – Hussen Says He’s Open to Changing Border Pact with U.S. — But Won’t Say How
Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it’s reviewing a Canadian proposal to amend the Safe Third Country Agreement, a pact that requires individuals claiming asylum to do so in the first safe country they land in, with few exceptions. While Hussen has repeatedly insisted that there are no “formal negotiations” going on at this point, he told CBC that the Safe Third Country Agreement is the subject of ongoing conversations with the U.S. which could lead to proposals to modernize the 14-year-old pact.
CBC News – Government Should Look at Bringing Rohingya Refugees to Canada, Minister Says
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada needs to look into bringing Rohingya refugees here to reunify families. While she said the majority of people she spoke to while visiting the refugee camps in Bangladesh expressed a desire to return to their homes in Myanmar, many Rohingya in Canada have told her they want their family members to be able to come here. Freeland is in Bangladesh on a four-day tour focused on the Rohingya refugee crisis.
Global News – Feds Ordering Tents for the Border in Anticipation of More Illegal Migrants
The federal government’s plan to deal with a new influx of asylum seekers is to install enough tents at the border to house up to 520 people at a time. Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has put out a call for tender for tents that will be set up in St-Bernard-de-Lacolle, the same border crossing that has seen most of the 26,000 illegal crossings over the last 15 months. The contract says the tents must have “sleeping areas, space for reception, security space and distribution centre.”
CBC News – Immigration Minister Says He’s Not Worried About a ‘Wave’ of Hondurans Hitting the Border
Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen says he doesn’t believe that tens of thousands of Hondurans losing their temporary protected status in the U.S. will make up the next wave of asylum seekers crossing into Canada. “The fact that these individuals will have until the year 2020 to regularize themselves gives them a lot of opportunities to regularize themselves or leave the United States. It’s much different than the decision that was made with respect to Haitian nationals,” Hussen said in an interview Friday.
Global News – Number of Irregular Border Crossings Spikes Again in April, Dwarfing Last Year’s Total
The flow of people crossing the Canada-U.S. border between legal checkpoints is continuing to increase, a parliamentary committee heard on Thursday, with the number coming to Canada in the first four months of 2018 dwarfing the total for the same period last year. Officials with the immigration department struggled to come up with an exact number of RCMP interceptions at the border for April, but say they expect it was “somewhere around” 2,500. If that’s accurate, it would bring the total for the whole year so far to about 7,550.
