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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.
Radio-Canada International – Un ancien premier ministre affirme que Stephen Harper fait honte au Canada
Dans une lettre ouverte publiée samedi matin dans plusieurs journaux, l’ancien premier ministre Jean Chrétien dit qu’il a honte de Stephen Harper. Jean Chrétien qui a été premier ministre du Canada, de 1993 a 2003, sous la bannière du Parti libéral, a écrit dans le Globe and Mail, La Presse et Le Devoir que la réaction de Harper aux crises de réfugiés en Syrie et en Irak contribue une nouvelle fois a projeter l’image d’un pays devenu froid et insensible au sein de la communauté internationale.
La Presse – Réfugiés : les conservateurs se défendent de privilégier les non-musulmans
Le ministre sortant de la Défense, Jason Kenney, affirme que le Canada doit choisir, parmi les réfugiés, les victimes du groupe État islamique (EI) afin de diminuer les risques pour la sécurité des Canadiens. Dans un long point de presse où il a étalé ses réflexions sur la crise des réfugiés, mercredi, M. Kenney a également assuré que si son parti insiste pour donner la priorité aux minorités religieuses et ethniques, ce n’est pas pour écarter les réfugiés musulmans. Jeudi dernier, le premier ministre sortant Stephen Harper a promis d’annoncer des mesures pour accélérer l’accueil de réfugiés syriens au Canada.
Guelph Tribune – Mayor Will Urge Council to Provide Aid for Refugees
Mayor Cam Guthrie says he’s hoping city hall and other parts of the Guelph community can do more to help Syrian refugees. […] At last night’s council meeting, he was planning to bring up a request by the Association of Municipalities of Ontario for all of its members to donate at least $100 to aid in the international effort to resettle Syrian refugees in safe countries. […] AMO hopes to raise at least $40,000 by Oct. 2, which would help save two Syrian families, “and if we raise a greater amount, we can help save more families,” said an AMO news release. AMO will donate all of the proceeds to Lifeline Syria, an organization seeking to resettle and integrate 1,000 Syrian refugees in Ontario over the next two years, reuniting them with their families, the release said. As well, Guthrie said, he plans to push for the Large Urban Mayors’ Caucus of Ontario, whose 27 members represent two-thirds of Ontario’s population, to make a commitment to help Syrian refugees. The federal government announced Saturday that it will match eligible Canadian donations with up to $100 million under the Syrian Emergency Relief Fund, and Guthrie said he considered this a “superb” action.
CTV News – Hungary Declares State of Emergency as it Seals Off Border with Serbia
Hungary sealed off its border with Serbia with massive coils of barbed wire Tuesday and began detaining migrants trying to use the country as a gateway to Western Europe, harsh new measures that left thousands of frustrated asylum-seekers piled up on the Serbian side of the border. Human rights activists condemned the move, with Amnesty International saying Hungary’s “intimidating show of militarized force is shocking.” But Prime Minister Viktor Orban defended the measures, saying he was acting to preserve Christian Europe, which he said had become threatened by the large numbers of Muslims streaming into the continent. […] By nightfall Tuesday, thousands of migrants, including many babies and children, prepared to spend a night in the open or in flimsy tents erected in the bushes or on the main highway near the Serbian border with Hungary. […] The developments mark a dramatic reversal for Hungary, an East European nation that played a key role in cracking open the Iron Curtain in 1989 when it removed a border fence to Austria, prompting large numbers of East Germans to flee to the West.
Al Jazeera English – A Haven No More: Canada’s Conservative Refugee Policy
Canada’s strict refugee policies have been criticised after coverage of the current election campaign shifted towards the Syrian refugee crisis. It began with the heart-breaking images of Alan Kurdi – the three-year-old whose body was washed ashore on a Turkish beach after his family attempted to reach Europe by sea. The family had hoped to go to Canada where a close relative lives. With the four-year Syrian civil war raging on and sending tens-of-thousands fleeing, the story of the Kurdi family touched many Canadians. Jerry Topolski, a Canadian lawyer from Toronto, told Al Jazeera in recent months he and others filed an application to sponsor and resettle a Syrian refugee family in Canada through a private sponsorship programme. […] “I had truly hoped that we’d be able to bring a family over and they would start school with my children in September. That hope was likely naive, but I discovered how naive it was in the last few months,” Topolski said. A statement by Citizenship and Immigration Canada to Al Jazeera said several factors, such as medical and security clearances, add to the waiting time – even during the crisis unfolding in Syria.
New Canadian citizens can wear face veils at their citizenship ceremonies, a Canadian court ruled Tuesday, overturning a ban the ruling party had trumpeted as a policy accomplishment on the eve of elections. The Federal Court of Appeals also threw out a policy that had required new citizens to have their faces uncovered as they recite the citizenship oath. It upheld a lower court’s ruling that the niqab, which covers all of the wearer’s face except the eyes, can be worn at the ceremony. […] The lower court had held that the ban violated Ishaq’s religious freedoms under Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, a position the appeals court upheld. “The appeal was dismissed with compensation,” a court spokesman told AFP, noting the three judges had cited the urgency of deciding the case quickly so Ishaq can take the citizenship oath in time to vote in the October 19 parliamentary elections. Originally from Pakistan, Ishaq arrived in Canada in 2008 and passed her citizenship test in 2013. But Ishaq refused to participate in the oath-reciting ceremony because she did not want to do it with her face uncovered, as required under a 2011 law.
