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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.
The Globe and Mail – European Union Agrees to Get Tough on Deportations of Illegal Migrants
European Union governments agreed on Thursday to step up deportations of illegal immigrants and discussed creating a border guard force among measures to cope with a surge in refugees from Syria’s civil war. “Increased return rates should act as a deterrent to irregular migration,” interior ministers concluded at a meeting in Luxembourg that included approving “detention” for those who may abscond before expulsion. The agreement also spoke of exerting more “leverage” on African and other poor states, including via aid budgets, to make them accept the return of citizens refused entry to Europe. They were joined later by EU foreign ministers and delegations from Balkan states, Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon for talks on stemming migrant flows that have divided member countries over how to secure the EU’s external borders and share responsibility for housing refugees. The EU is offering neighbouring states funding to help them support Syrians and wants more co-operation to control migration.
CBC – Sponsoring Syrian Refugees Easier Said Than Done, Calgary Group Finds
Lori Petryk, like many in Canada and around the world, was moved to tears when she saw the photo of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi lying dead on a Turkish beach. She was also moved to do something about it. […]Petryk and her friends are working through a government program called the Blended Visa Office-Referred Program (BVOR), which requires them to find an organization that has a legal agreement with the government to sponsor refugees and then to become a co-sponsor. Ottawa will kick in $15,000 towards relocating a family of five and the sponsors have to pay the rest — anywhere from $15,000 to $30,000. Petryk’s group is also hoping to pay for the family’s airfare. A sponsored family can then be in Canada within four months. Despite the fact there are more than four million Syrian refugees, there aren’t enough of them approved by both the United Nations and the Canadian government, and the approval process is slow. Citizenship and Immigration Canada says its goal is to admit 700 to 1,000 refugees through the BVOR program in 2015; as of September, 153 Syrians and 136 Iraqi refugees have arrived.
The Guardian (Charlottetown) – P.E.I. Fish Plant Wants Review of Temporary Foreign Workers Program
Whoever wins the federal election on Oct. 19, Jeff Malloy hopes they will agree to take a second look at the temporary foreign workers program. Malloy, CEO of the Acadian Fishermen’s Co-op in Abram Village, said his company and other Island seafood processors continue to struggle to find enough workers to fill their plants. […] His co-op and other processors on the Island are pushing to have the next federal government re-examine some of the changes the Conservative government made to the program in 2014, which he said makes it more difficult to fill their shifts. Those changes made it far more expensive for businesses to even apply for temporary foreign workers, limited how many they can have and how long they can stay, though some industries, like agriculture, were exempt from some of those changes. The government also introduced significantly more oversight and reporting requirements from businesses involved in the program.
The Globe and Mail – Conservatives Pledge Asylum for North Koreans in Bid for Crucial Votes
The Conservatives are promising asylum for North Korean refugees if re-elected – a pledge delivered Wednesday by a part of the Tory campaign machine that operates largely outside the glare of big media attention. […] The Conservatives are betting the North Korean refugee pledge will play well with Korean-Canadians and could help tip the balance in tight or tough races in ridings where there are significant members of this community. […] The Korean-Canadian community has been lobbying for such a program for a long time. The Tories are also trying to combat a misperception among Korean-Canadians that they’re against North Koreans. This arose after Ottawa cracked down on, and deported, a number of fraudulent North Korean asylum claimants. This Kenney pledge is intended to counter that. North Koreans are not recognized as refugees under the United Nations Convention on Refugees because South Korea recognizes all North Koreans as citizens, so this pledge would require special immigration measures by the Canadian government.
CBC – Why Thousands of New Canadians Must Wait Longer to Vote
Many former immigrants and refugees who have been in Canada for years are learning they will have to wait even longer before they can ever cast a ballot in a federal election. Recent changes to the Citizenship Act mean temporary foreign workers, refugees and international students need to be a permanent resident for four years instead of three before they can apply for the citizenship that will allow them to vote. Tamara Segura, who came to Canada from Cuba in 2010, will not be able to vote until at least 2017. “Being able to vote is a big deal to me, I come from a country where a vote is mandatory but we just have one party — so I have never really voted in my life,” said Segura. […] Many new Canadians like Segura are immigrants and refugees from countries where they couldn’t vote at all, so they’re keen to take part in this fall’s federal election. Segura feels because she works and lives in Canada and pays taxes, she should have a say in who forms the government.
CTV News – Should Canadian Refugee Loans be Changed to Grants?
Each year, since 2006, roughly 7,000 government-assisted refugees arrive in Canada. These people are selected based on their hardships — survivors who are often victims of trauma or torture. Canada’s response to the Middle East refugee crisis has been in the spotlight as the Oct. 19 election nears. Canadian groups that help refugees have been lobbying Ottawa to have the government loans changed to grants, arguing that loans present an additional financial burden for refugees who have nothing. “This is a severe hardship for our clients,” said Rita Chahal, the executive director of Manitoba Interfaith Immigration Council. “They are having to take money from their food budget, from their housing budget, and often forced into low-paying survival jobs just to make the loan payment.” Canada is one of three countries to offer refugee loans, a program that has been in place since 1951. Australia and the U.S. offer similar loans but unlike Canada, they don’t charge interest. Despite a push by some groups to change the refugee loan program, however, Ottawa has defended the repayment structure. “Loan repayments go back into the fund to help finance new loans for other immigrants and refugees in need,” said a statement from Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
