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 – Federal Government Urged to Help Roma Refugee CLients of Disciplined Lawyers
Ottawa is being urged to offer redress to the Roma refugees who were the clients of three disciplined Toronto lawyers and subsequently had their asylum claims rejected by Canada.
Now that the last of the three lawyers has been slapped with penalties for professional misconduct over their handling of Roma refugee cases, a community coalition has asked Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen to create a special program to grant permanent residency to their affected clients.
Radio-Canada – Kellie Leitch s’engage à expulser les demandeurs d’asile entrés illégalement au pays
La candidate à la direction du Parti conservateur, Kellie Leitch, s’engage à expulser les demandeurs d’asile qui entrent illégalement au Canada, après avoir rencontré vendredi des représentants et des résidents d’Emerson, une localité située à proximité de la frontière canado-américaine au sud du Manitoba […].
The Globe and Mail – Border Towns Quietly Mobilizing to Help Asylum-Seekers come to Canada
Janet McFetridge, a resident of Champlain, N.Y., said she started seeing taxis passing by her house in November, around the time Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. […] “The greater Plattsburgh area is looking for some system where people will be able to house them and get them on their way safely.” What has emerged, she says, is a coalition of churches, citizens and social organizations. The group, which calls itself Plattsburgh Cares, is considering ways to offer food, shelter, transportation or legal advice to people who are heading to Canada or who are turned back.
Toronto Star – “We Will Look for Win-Win to Our Difficulties,” says Head of U.S. Mission in Ottawa
On the Safe Third Country Agreement, which bans refugees from seeking asylum across the border: “It works very effectively. Both governments have indicated they want to continue with the agreement. If you look at the facts of people crossing the northern border irregularly, you will see that most of them are legal in the U.S. If you look at the facts of who is crossing and why they are crossing, it’s perhaps a different story than the assumption or the politicization of the concept.”
Reuters – Pence says United States will Honor Refugee Deal with Australia
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Saturday the United States would honor a controversial refugee deal with Australia, under which the United States would resettle up to 1,250 asylum seekers, a deal President Donald Trump had described as “dumb”. Pence told a joint news conference with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull that the deal would be subject to vetting, and that honoring it “doesn’t mean that we admire the agreement”.
Guelph Mercury – Make Refugee Support Program Permanent in Guelph, Council Urged
City hall staff are recommending that a pilot program which started last year, providing temporary free passes for buses, recreation programs and museums to refugees settling in Guelph, be made a permanent program of the city. The refugee support program, approved by council on a one-year trial basis early last year, should become a permanent program under the name “Welcome to Guelph Program,” says a new city staff report.
