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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.
Ottawa Citizen – Canada Can Use Lessons of Vietnam Airlifts in Syrian Refugee Crisis: Joe Clark
Former prime minister Joe Clark says he believes Canadian officials can overcome obstacles to speed up the acceptance of Syrian refugees, much as his government found ways to airlift Vietnamese boat people after he won office in 1979. “We have the capacity to do more. … I think everyone recognizes that and we have a tradition of doing more,” he said in an interview Friday from his home in Ottawa. Canadian civil servants are capable of assessing possible security risks among Syrian refugees, Clark said, as they did when his government sent teams of officials overseas to process thousands of Vietnamese applicants living in crowded refugee camps. Clark said his Progressive Conservative government adopted and expanded on the policies put in place by a former Liberal government to directly assist Indochinese refugees who fled in rickety boats after the Communists took power in Hanoi. At the time, he said his cabinet was concerned some refugee applicants might be criminals or Communist officials who could pose risks to Canada, but his senior officials were capable of screening applicants.
Global News – Canadians’ Views Toward Refugee Crisis Split Along Party Lines: Poll
Conservative Party supporters are less likely to want Canada to bring in more refugees, while those who support the NDP or the Liberals are more likely to think Canada should do more, a new poll finds. The refugee and migrant crisis is making headlines around the world and has become a highly charged election issue as Canada readies to head to the polls on October 19. More than half (54 per cent) of people surveyed by the Angus Reid Institute think the Canadian government should take in more refugees. But that view varied widely by party affiliation […] More than twice as many Tory supporters said they think the migrants are “bogus: criminals or economic opportunists looking to jump the immigration queue for a better life.” […]Conservative voters were also more likely to think this is a European problem, not a global one […] Tory supporters were also least likely to think Canada should take 10,000 or more refugees in the next year.
Globe and Mail – B.C.’s Kurdish Community to Protest Ottawa’s Refugee Limit
British Columbia’s small Kurdish community is rallying around the aunt of a drowned Syrian boy, whose parents had given up hope of settling in Canada, to demand Ottawa accept more refugees fleeing the humanitarian crisis. Shwan Chawshin, a spokesperson for the non-profit Kurdish House, which plans community gatherings, said his group is organizing the several thousand Kurdish people living in the province to join a rally in Vancouver on Sunday calling on the Canadian government to at least double its stated commitment to admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2017. Tima Kurdi, who is Kurdish, is expected to be there, he said. Ms. Kurdi is the Coquitlam woman who had once planned on sponsoring her brother’s family before his wife and children drowned off the coast of Turkey. Photos of Ms. Kurdi’s three-year-old nephew Alan’s limp body were “very sad not just for the Kurdish community, but to the whole world,” Mr. Chawshin said.
CBC – Canada’s Refugee Response Lacking Says Former PC Senator
A former Progressive Conservative senator from B.C. says Canada can deal with any obstacle when it comes to resettling Syrian refugees — except for the shame of inaction. Pat Carney called on the government to accept 100,000 more refugees, or be swept out of power. “Act from your guts and your heart, not the pollsters and the campaign … otherwise the Conservative government should be swept out of office by a tsunami wave of anger,” Carney wrote in a Facebook post that now appears to be deleted — although she told The Early Edition’s guest host Stephen Quinn that she stands by what she wrote. “Canada is really lagging in this regard,” she said. “My aim is to convince the government that we can do more. We have done it in the past. We can do it and we should do it.” Carney says the federal government’s strategy of relying on military force and taking people from pre-approved refugee camps is not enough to deal with the masses of refugees who are still in danger, or on the move, possibly without paperwork.
Global News – Refugees in Hungary Board Buses for Austria, Germany After Marching West
After misery, delivery. Hundreds of migrants, exhausted after breaking away from police and marching for hours toward Western Europe, boarded buses provided by Hungary’s government as Austria in the early-morning hours said it and Germany would let them in. Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann announced the decision early Saturday after speaking with Angela Merkel, his German counterpart – not long after Hungary’s surprise nighttime move to provide buses for the weary travellers from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. With people streaming in long lines along highways from a Budapest train station and near a migrant reception centre in this northern town, the buses would be used because “transportation safety can’t be put at risk,” said Janos Lazar, chief of staff to the prime minister. […] Hungarian authorities had refused to let them board trains to the west, and the migrants balked at going to processing centres, fearing they would be forced to live in Hungary. Under European law, refugees are supposed to seek asylum in the first European Union country they enter. But many see limited economic opportunities and a less welcoming atmosphere in Hungary than in Germany, Sweden and other Western nations.
Ottawa Citizen – EU Would Welcome Support from Countries like Canada on Refugee Crisis: Official
Speaking amid the chaos of arriving migrants and refugees on the Greek island of Kos, European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans said that while the crisis is “a global challenge that requires European solutions,” he would welcome support from non-EU countries like Canada. Timmermans said the EU is still looking for a balance between protecting those needing shelter and keeping out those who only seek economic fortune. He said the “organized solidarity” of the European welfare state “would be completely undermined if we simply say everybody can come in.” Timmermans added, though, that “Europe cannot survive either if we take leave of our values and our legal obligations” for those seeking protection from persecution and war. The refugee and migrant crisis is nothing less than “a moment of truth in European history,” he said. At the same time, he conceded that help from other countries would be useful. “Syrians deserve refuge all over the world.” Timmermans said that when it came to refugees fleeing the war in Syria, the EU and international partners had done much less that they could have during the four years of conflict.
