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.
CBC – Should Liberals let Asylum Seekers from U.S. Enter Canada Safely at Border Crossings?
It was probably unavoidable that when federal bureaucrats met with reporters on Thursday to discuss how the government is handling the growing number of people entering Canada illegally from the U.S. it would boil down to numbers. Officials said Thursday more people made refugee claims at inland points — places other than official border crossings — during the first seven weeks of this year: 2,281 compared to 1,803 during the same period last year. Over that same brief period, 435 people have crossed illegally into Canada and were arrested by the RCMP.
CBC – Identifying Yazidis Seeking Resettlement to Canada a “Complicated Process”
Resettling Yazidi women and girls in Canada has a unique set of challenges, but one of the biggest is identifying those in most urgent need who are willing to relocate from northern Iraq, says the UN refugee agency’s representative to Canada.
CBC – Lawyer Questions Kellie Leitch’s Understanding of Immigration System
“I think that she doesn’t understand the immigration system. So for one, almost all immigrants are actually seen already face to face. If you’re coming in as a permanent resident, which is an immigrant, or a refugee, you are screened at the consulate. You’re screened by the humanitarian organizations, you’ve got police checks done for every place you lived for six months or more since you were 18. There’s full scrutiny.”
CBC – More Refugees Need More Legal Aid – but will Cost-Sharing Continue?
Premier Brian Pallister has sent a letter to Justin Trudeau calling for more resources as Manitoba Legal Aid feels pressure from the surge in refugee claimants. In the letter obtained by CBC News dated Feb. 21, the premier wrote that the rising number of refugee claimants entering Manitoba is having a significant impact in a number of areas — in particular, on the caseloads of Legal Aid Manitoba, which provides legal assistance from the initiation of the refugee claim to the completion of the process.
CTV News – Most Canadians say Refugee Claimants Crossing Border not a Threat: Nanos Survey
A majority of Canadians believe that refugee claimants illegally crossing the border into Canada from the U.S. are not a threat to the country, according to a new Nanos survey. The survey found that 62 per cent of Canadians don’t believe the border-crossing refugees are a threat. Five per cent said the refugees pose a terrorist threat, while another five per cent saw them as a threat to Canadian jobs. Eighteen per cent said the refugees are both a terrorist threat and a threat to jobs.
Daily Xtra – Canada’s Immigration Department Acknowledges Drop in LGBT Refugees from Iran
Canada’s federal immigration department has acknowledged it resettled fewer LGBT Iranians from Turkey, in order to make space for the late-2015 Syrian airlift. […] Under the previous Harper government, Conservatives gained international praise for the program that brought hundreds of LGBT asylum seekers from Turkey. […] LGBT Iranians in Turkey, and their advocacy groups, say referrals drastically slowed starting in November 2015, as the Syrian program got underway. Six-month delays grew into year-long holds, before the UNHCR started referring the refugees to the US by October 2016.
