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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.
Maclean’s – Aid Agency Document Reveals Liberals’ Refugee Plan
The new Liberal government is developing plans to fly 1,000 Syrian refugees a day out of Amman, Jordan, according to a planning document obtained by SiriusXM’s Everything Is Political. Refugees will then be flown to Toronto, Montreal and the military base in Trenton, Ont., the planning document shows. The internal aid agency report comes from a group tasked with helping to fulfill a Liberal campaign promise to get 25,000 Syrian refugees into Canada by the end of the year.
CBC – Multicultural Groups Planning for Hundreds of Syrian Refugees
Multicultural organizations across New Brunswick are moving quickly to put in place support networks as hundreds of Syrian refugees could be placed in the province before the end of the year. […] Lisa Bamford De Gante, the executive director of the Multicultural Association of Fredericton, said her staff and volunteers are getting ready for a variety of potential settlement plans.
CBC – Refugee Agencies Lost Federal Money, Now Trying to Ramp Up
The anticipated influx to Canada of 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of the year has grassroots settlement agencies in Ottawa calling on the government to restore funding cut in recent years. […] Cuts have had an impact on services at agencies such as the Catholic Centre for Immigrants. Executive director Carl Nicholson said the organization receives about two-thirds of its funding from the federal government. “At one point, our budget was about $8 million; it’s now about $5.5 million,” Nicholson said. “It’s not because we’re seeing less people — it’s because the federal government decided to invest less.”
Global News – Liberal Government Still Holding Back Detail on Syrian Refugee Plan
The Liberal cabinet met Thursday to review its plan for the resettlement of Syrian refugees, but offered little public detail – sowing confusion and frustration about what, exactly, is supposed to happen next, and how. […] The original draft plan for the Canadian resettlement program was devised by the sub-cabinet committee tasked with that purpose earlier this week and presented to the full Liberal cabinet for review Thursday. It contains a range of proposals, including how officials could handle the potentially complex security issues.
CTV News – Mass Resettlement of Syrian Refugees Has Already Begun: Sources
As refugee experts continue to suggest the Trudeau government won’t meet its goal of bringing 25,000 Syrians to Canada by Jan. 1, CTV News has learned the Liberals have already started to bring them here. Sources told CTV’s Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife that the plan to take in the full 25,000 will be rolled out as early as next week. Some of the refugees will have gone through medical and security screening by the United Nations, and others will be screened on military bases once they arrive in Canada, according to the sources.
Al Jazeera English – Sweden Imposes New Refugee Border Controls
The Swedish government imposed stricter border controls on Thursday to deal with the unprecedented arrival of refugees streaming across its borders. The Nordic nation that touts itself as a “humanitarian superpower” has welcomed more asylum-seeking refugees per capita than any other EU country, and authorities forecast up to 190,000 people could arrive this year – double the previous record from the early 1990s.
