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.
Le premier ministre Justin Trudeau a utilisé l’exemple des grands-mères italiennes installées à Montréal, jeudi, pour expliquer pourquoi les Canadiens ne devraient pas être « trop impatients » envers l’intégration des nouveaux arrivants. Selon lui, l’attitude face à l’immigration au Canada ne date pas d’hier : les Italiens, les Grecs et les ressortissants d’autres pays qui sont arrivés […].
From the ski slopes of Whistler in the West to the shores of the Bay of Fundy in the East, Canadian businesses say they are desperately looking for employees and blame restrictions on the temporary foreign workers for costing the national economy jobs, productivity and revenue. Their complaints prompted the federal government to conduct a spring review of the program, which is expected to be tabled when Parliament opens this month, along with proposed reforms. Businesses eagerly await change. Some speak as though the current state of affairs could lead to crisis.
Immigration numbers are shooting up in Nova Scotia, but there are worries from the NDP that funding to help people settle isn’t keeping pace. Julie Towers, the chief executive officer of the province’s office of immigration, testified Wednesday at a legislature committee that 3,418 newcomers arrived in Nova Scotia in the first half of this year, slightly more than arrived in all of 2015, a record year.
Last year, the Canada Border Services Agency deported 9,382 people from Canada, down from 12,578 in 2014, but that’s not an indication that there are fewer people without status in Canada. The statistics are shaped by many factors including the fact that the CBSA puts a priority on deportation of criminals. Whatever the numbers, a handful of cities are flouting federal laws on illegal immigration by creating policies to support them.
New Brunswick has managed to keep roughly 95 per cent of the Syrian refugees that settled in the province earlier this year but more work needs to be done on making sure the remainder stay in their new communities, according to two officials. Both Mike Timani, the president of the New Brunswick Multicultural Association, and Alex LeBlanc, the group’s executive director, say it is common that some refugees will decide to leave a province after they have settled.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/more-syrian-refugees-stay-province-1.3761519
A study led by Wilfrid Laurier University Professor Margaret Walton-Roberts will begin evaluating the role of Local Immigrant Partnerships in the Syrian refugee resettlement process in Waterloo, Hamilton and Ottawa. […] Waterloo, Hamilton and Ottawa are all officially designated reception communities for Syrian refugees. All three cities have formal refugee resettlement steering committees to coordinate the settlement of refugees with municipal governments and community partners.