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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.
Toronto Star – Conservatives Postpone Immigration Announcement Amid Criticism of Response to European Crisis
The Conservative Party postponed a press conference at which it planned to tout its immigration policy, amid criticism of the Canadian government’s response to the European migrant crisis. On Wednesday afternoon the party sent reporters a press release indicating that Conservative candidate Jason Kenney would be in Brampton, Ont. on Thursday to “make an important announcement on Conservative efforts to protect the integrity of Canada’s immigration system and the security of Canada.” On Thursday morning, party spokesperson Stephen Lecce sent out a second release saying the event had been “postponed to a later date.” The announcement came hours after Conservative candidate and former immigration minister Chris Alexander dropped his campaign plans to return to Ottawa to be briefed on the crisis. Disturbing photos of 3-year-old Alan Kurdi’s body on the Turkish beach have been viewed around the world. His mother and 5-year-old brother also died while trying to make the passage from Turkey.
Toronto Star – Canada Has Taken in 1,000 Syrian Refugees this Year
Canada has accepted just over 1,000 refugees from Syria towards its goal, pledged in January, of taking in 10,000, federal figures show. But the vast majority of those, 857, have been privately sponsored refugees dependent on the financial support of churches, families and community organizations to start their new life in Canada. There have been 188 government-assisted refugees accepted towards the 10,000 goal, immigration department figures show. Immigration Minister Chris Alexander announced in January that Canada would take in an additional 10,000 Syrian refugees and 3,000 Iraqi refugees over the next three years. That’s in addition to 1,300 Syrian refugees already settled under a pledge made in 2013. On the election trail last month, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper said that a re-elected Conservative government would accept a further 10,000 refugees from Iraq and Syria over the next four years, on top of the previous commitments. But on Thursday, the Canadian Council for Refugees appealed to the federal government to immediately accept a minimum of 10,000 Syrians, all of them government assisted.
Qantara.de – Hungarian PM says Refugees “Threaten Europe’s Christian Identity”
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned on Thursday that the wave of refugees and migrants coming to Europe and the EU’s “failed immigration policy” threaten to undermine the continent’s Christian roots. “If you’re being overrun, you can’t accept” migrants, he wrote in German daily “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, adding that most were Muslims, not Christians. “We must not forget that those who are coming in have been brought up under a different religion and represent a profoundly different culture,” wrote the conservative leader, who was visiting Brussels on Thursday. […] Orban defended his government’s controversial decision to build a fence along its Serbian border in an effort to stop and slow the influx of people fleeing war and misery. “The people want us to control the situation and protect our borders,” he wrote. “Only when we have protected our borders can we ask questions about the numbers of people we can take in, or whether there should be quotas.” […] In Brussels, EU President Donald Tusk reacted to the article, saying that “for me, Christianity in public and social life means a duty to our brothers in need”.
CBC – Syrian Refugee Crisis “a Disgrace” Says Nenshi as Albertans Try to Help
Mayor Naheed Nenshi, speaking on Thursday, lashed out at what he sees as “the mean-spiritedness that seems to have snuck into our political discourse.” “We’re a country of generosity and we’re a country of opportunity. The fact that we have not even taken the Syrian refugees that we have committed to take, let alone taking many more people who are fleeing the most desperate situation only looking for opportunity in the world, to me is a disgrace,” he said. In Calgary, however, there are those who have been working to bring more refugees from the Middle East to Canada to help ease the burden on countries that cannot keep up with the massive migration and to give peace and shelter to those on the move. The Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), which has an agreement with the federal government to sponsor refugees, is working with families and Muslim communities to bring people to Canada.
Toronto Star – Four Ways Canadians Can Help Refugees
“You don’t have to feel helpless,” says Ratna Omidvar, the chair of Lifeline Syria, an organization aiming to bring at least 1000 Syrian refugees to Canada. Thousands of kilometres from the Turkish beach where the lifeless bodies of young migrant children washed up last week, Canadians can make an impact on the global refugee crisis. Here are several things ordinary Canadians can do: […]Canadians can volunteer to support an individual or a family for one year. You can collaborate with friends, neighbours, colleagues, professional organizations and social clubs to provide the time and money commitment necessary. […]Government estimates place the cost of settling an individual refugee today at around $12,000. A family of four will need about $25,000. […] Humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) are often at the front line of the crisis. The United Nations Refugee Agency, the UNHCR, is one of the most effective agencies, although far from the only one. The Canadian Red Cross, Oxfam Canada, CARE Canada, the Migrant Offshore Aid Station, Migration Aid, Doctors Without Borders and World Vision, and Mennonite Central Committee and UNICEF are all meritorious and in need of financial help.
Vancouver Sun – Canada Favours Temporary Residents to Permanent: Report
Canada has become a country that favours temporary over permanent residents, exploits would-be immigrants for cheap labour and draws international criticism for its treatment of refugees under the current federal government, charged a report released Tuesday. “Immigration … which is the idea of immigrants coming to Canada, having permanent residency, eventually becoming citizens, does not exist in Canada,” said Harsha Walia, a co-author of the report entitled Never Home: Legislating Discrimination in Canadian Immigration. “There are more people who come on temporary permits than those who immigrate permanently. Even those who do immigrate permanently have what’s increasingly becoming conditional permanent residency,” she said, citing changes which allow a sponsored spouse to lose permanent residence if the relationship ends within two years as one example affecting vulnerable immigrant women in particular. In 2008, the number of temporary residents entering Canada exceeded the number of permanent residents for the first time, the report notes. […] Citizenship and Immigration Canada figures show that 279,565 temporary workers came to Canada in 2013. This figure does not include foreign students or visitors. The same year, Canada welcomed 258,953 permanent residents.
