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.
CBC – Refugee Health-Care Flyers Draw Fire to Conservatives
As election campaigns shift toward addressing the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis, people have been tweeting Conservative Party mailouts that are said to have “loaded” language against refugees. Several of these surveys, which ask about health-care cuts to refugees, were supposedly mailed to various ridings held by Conservative MPs over the past few years. The ones that have been posted online include questions like, “Should refugees get gold-plated dental, vision and drug benefits” and “What level of health-care benefits do you believe the government should provide to failed and fraudulent refugee claimants?” […]Mailouts that accuse refugees of unfairly gaining access to health services have appeared elsewhere. One surfaced in 2012 sent by Kelly Block, now a Saskatchewan Conservative candidate in Carlton Trail-Eagle Creek, to members of the constituency. It then asks the reader’s thoughts, with the options, “Newcomers don’t deserve more benefits than Canadians” and “Refugees claimants should get dental, vision and pharmacare even if I don’t,” similar to the language used in the Ontario mailouts. […]The 2012 messages were sent around the same time the Harper government cut supplemental health benefits to many refugee claimants, specifically in regards to the Interim Federal Health Program.
CBC – Refugee Crisis Prompts Rallies Across Canada
From Victoria to Fredericton to Inuvik, local groups have planned marches, protests and candlelight vigils to support the refugees and migrants fleeing war-torn Syria and other conflict-ridden countries. Under the banner of “Refugees Welcome,” many of the rallies are taking place during the Labour Day long weekend, with others scheduled later in September. “These are collective acts of protest against the atrocities that we are seeing overseas and the lack of care and compassion that Canada, the United States and Europe are showing to the refugees,” said Blake McCall, a member of Sanctuary Hamilton, a local migrant advocacy group that organized the Hamilton rally. […] The same photo that made international headlines has also suddenly shifted the focus of the federal election campaign. The cross-country rally aims to make sure the conversation continues, McCall said.
CBC – Greg Selinger, Manitoba Premier, Asks Feds to Double Refugee Sponsorship Cap
Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger added his voice to those of provincial and municipal leaders calling for immediate action from the federal government on the Syrian refugee crisis. “We think we can double the number of people we can take in the refugee category,” Selinger said in an interview on Sunday on CBC News Network’s Power & Politics. “We’ve been capped for several years at about 500 on the public side. If the federal government would lift the cap on public sponsorship, we’d be willing to do even more. It’s always been our objective to have more people come into Manitoba.” Immigration is a federal issue. Provinces have lobbied the government for more say over immigration and refugee issues, but currently only Quebec has control over its own immigration policies. Selinger called the federal position on immigration “a barrier” and said the country’s premiers, through the Council of Federation, have asked for the cap to be lifted all categories of immigrants, including refugees.
Al Jazeera English – Israel to Build Fence to Keep Refugees Out
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced the start of construction of a fence along Israel’s border with Jordan after calls for Tel Aviv to take in Syrian refugees. Netanyahu said on Sunday that he would not allow Israel to be “submerged by a wave of illegal migrants and terrorist activists”. “Israel is not indifferent to the human tragedy of Syrian and African refugees… but Israel is a small country, very small, without demographic or geographic depth. That is why we must control our borders”, he said at the weekly cabinet meeting according to his office. The announcement came a day after Isaac Herzog, Israeli opposition leader, said on Saturday that Israel should take in Syrian refugees, recalling the plight of Jews who sought refuge from past conflicts.
Le Devoir – Des centaines de migrants entament une nouvelle marche depuis la Hongrie
Des milliers de migrants venant de Hongrie ont afflué samedi en Autriche et en Allemagne, une crise qui va « durer » et à laquelle le monde doit « consacrer plus d’attention », ont prévenu des responsables internationaux. « Nous sommes face à un événement dramatique. La crise est là pour durer », a affirmé Federica Mogherini à l’issue d’une réunion des ministres des Affaires étrangères de l’Union européenne à Luxembourg. « Nous attendons du monde qu’il consacre plus d’attention à cette crise humanitaire », a dit le vice-premier ministre turc Cevdet Yilmaz, en bouclant une réunion des grands argentiers du G20 — les vingt principales économies mondiales — à Ankara.
La Presse – Les autorités peinent à identifier les victimes des naufrages
Adal Neguse, un immigrant de l’Érythrée dont le frère s’est noyé lors du naufrage d’un bateau qui tentait de gagner les côtes italiennes en 2013, connaît trop bien ce qui se dessine pour les proches d’autres victimes mortes dans des accidents similaires en Méditerranée. Des mois d’attentes pour retrouver le corps, la douleur de voir des photos du naufrage et des rencontres interminables avec des fonctionnaires qui n’ont aucune suite. Alors qu’un nombre record de personnes tentent de fuir la guerre et la pauvreté au Moyen-Orient, en Afrique et en Asie pour se rendre en Europe, les autorités peinent à identifier les centaines de victimes qui périssent au terme de voyages périlleux.
