Voies vers la prospérité: Canada

Observers see a growing number of Syrian child brides as a tangible impact of the $3 billion gap between the financial needs of displaced Syrians in the Middle East and the funds available to pay for them. After seven years of living in exile, Syrians are increasingly under pressure and that’s driving a rise in child marriage, said Robert Jenkins, a Canadian who is in charge of UNICEF efforts in Jordan.

http://www.metronews.ca/news/canada/2017/08/09/funding-gap-for-syrian-refugees-manifests-in-more-kids-working-marrying-unicef.html

Foreign Affairs Minister Antonio Rodrigue and Stéphanie Auguste, the minister for nationals living abroad, met with Mayor Denis Coderre after arriving in Montreal on Tuesday. Jean-Sébastien Boudreault, head of the Quebec Association of Immigration Lawyers, said any contact with the Haitian government could compromise the safety and privacy of those seeking refuge from the country.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/haiti-refugees-quebec-1.4240678

La visite de deux ministres haïtiens à Montréal, devenue le refuge de près de 2580 demandeurs d’asile de ce pays, crée de vives inquiétudes chez des avocats spécialisés en droit de l’immigration. L’accueil réservé à cette délégation contrevient selon eux à la protection des réfugiés […].

http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/actualites-en-societe/505285/la-visite-de-deux-ministres-haitiens-inquiete-des-avocats-du-droit-a-l-immigration

Le navire de Génération identitaire qui prétend vouloir lutter contre le trafic d’êtres humains en Méditerranée est à l’arrêt au large de la Tunisie. Au large des côtes tunisiennes, le C-Star, navire antimigrants du groupuscule d’extrême droite Génération identitaire, est à l’arrêt depuis le lundi 7 août.

http://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2017/08/09/navire-antimigrants-c-star-une-mission-inutile-voire-illegale_5170650_4355770.html

Maintaining the “integrity of the immigration system” is in part the shared code language for how our governments (Conservative or Liberal) think about asylum seekers. Canada may love refugees like Syrians who are selected and screened abroad before they set foot in the country, but the same cannot be said about asylum seekers who wash up on our shores in boats, or who walk across our border with the U.S.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/canada-welcomes-refugees-but-shuts-the-door-on-asylum-seekers/article35905842/

Monday is the first day asylum seekers who recently arrived in Montreal can sign their children up for school at the city’s largest French-language school board, the Commission scolaire de Montréal (CSDM). The CSDM has experienced a 14 per cent increase in enrolment this year already, the equivalent of a small elementary school’s population.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-schools-asylum-seekers-1.4238344