Voies vers la prospérité: Canada

After Canada’s minister of democratic institutions confirmed Thursday that she was actually born in Iran and not Afghanistan, an immigration lawyer says stories such as that of Maryam Monsef are “extremely common” and says a review is unlikely. […] Immigration lawyer, Lorne Waldman, told CTV’s Your Morning on Friday that Monsef’s case is “extremely common” among refugees moving to Canada. […] “It happens for different reasons,” he said. “It happens because parents are trying to protect their children. It happens because parents are desperate and they’re given bad advice and they misrepresent facts on applications in order to bring their families to safety.”

http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/monsef-case-unlikely-to-be-reviewed-immigration-lawyer-says-1.3085323

The federal government’s own internal polling contradicts the Immigration Minister’s claim that Canadians are clamouring for increased immigration. John McCallum told reporters last week that “almost all” of the Canadians he met with during consultations this summer told him to boost Canada’s immigration targets. However internal polling conducted by Mr. McCallum’s department found Canadians are just fine with the current targets, even though most people had no idea how many immigrants currently come to Canada each year.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canadians-views-at-odds-with-liberal-immigration-plans-government-poll-shows/article32021887/

La question de l’accès à l’école gratuite pour les enfants non résidents ou sans statut passe à la trappe. Car contrairement à l’ancien projet de loi 86, le nouveau projet de loi visant à modifier la Loi sur l’instruction publique, qui s’ouvrait mercredi aux consultations particulières, n’en fait plus du tout mention.

http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/education/480577/l-acces-a-l-ecole-pour-les-enfants-sans-papier-encore-reportee

Des réfugiés syriens établis dans la région de Fredericton sont devenus apprentis fermiers cet été : 12 hectares de terres agricoles à Keswick Ridge leur ont été offerts pour qu’ils puissent exercer leur pouce vert et, dans le même temps, garnir leur garde-manger. Certains ne partaient pas de rien : ils étaient agriculteurs chez eux avant d’émigrer au Canada […].

http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/atlantique/2016/09/22/002-refugies-syriens-fermiers-fredericton-nouveau-brunswick-acadie.shtml

Des chercheurs en droits de la personne soutiennent que la détention préventive d’enfants migrants à leur arrivée au Canada laisse des traces à long terme sur des personnes déjà vulnérables. Le Canada détient chaque année des centaines d’enfants, certains provenant de régions ravagées par la guerre, comme la Syrie.

http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/national/201609/22/01-5023219-la-detention-denfants-migrants-laisse-des-traces-selon-une-etude.php

Canada regularly detains hundreds of children who have run afoul of the country’s immigration laws – including some who are held in correctional facilities and even in solitary confinement, according to a new report calling for sweeping reforms to the practice. Between 2010 and 2014, an average of 242 children were detained across Canada over immigration violations, according to the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/22/canada-children-detention-immigration-solitary-confinement?utm_content=bufferad933&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer