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.
Toronto Star – Foreign Students Denied Work Permits Over “Distance Learning”
Foreign graduates from Niagara College who have taken many of their courses online are faced with having to leave Canada early because they’ve been deemed ineligible for post-graduate work permits. With online courses becoming an increasingly mainstream part of higher education, their exclusion from the three-year work permit program for new graduates — meant to retain the talents of the best students coming to Canada — raises questions about how well immigration policy is adapting to evolving technologies. The students in the school’s general arts and sciences program had high hopes of earning Canadian work experience after their study visas expired, given that the school is listed on Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s “designated learning institutions list” for the work permit program. But they were told their studies failed to meet the requirements because the bulk of their classes were conducted online and considered “distance learning.” […] Although the Immigration department states on its website that distance learning is ineligible for post-graduation work permits, it does not define what constitutes distance learning. Complaining students said the Niagara College program delivered three-quarters of its course work online, but they had to attend the program in-class at least once a week.
Edmonton Journal – Health Minister Takes up Cause of Paralyzed Temporary Foreign Worker
Alberta Health Minister Sarah Hoffman will call the federal immigration minister to try to keep a temporary foreign worker in Canada so she can get medical help for injuries suffered on her way to work. If a deportation order can somehow be stayed, Hoffman said it may be easier for Vicky Venancio to get diagnostic tests, full physiotherapy and medication to help her better recover after she was hit by a truck while biking to her McDonald’s job in Mill Woods in June 2012. That crash left Venancio paralyzed with limited use of her arms. Because she could no longer work, her temporary work permit expired, as did her Alberta health coverage. Her deportation was ordered in February. “The No. 1 thing she asked me to do, and I’ve committed to, is to make sure we advocate on her behalf to immigration, that the federal minister has the ability to grant compassionate leave,” Hoffman said Thursday after meeting with Venancio and her supporters at the legislature.
Globe and Mail – Foreign Students Say They Were Denied Work Permits Due to Online Courses
International students from Niagara College say they have been unfairly denied work permits after graduation because they took online courses, which Citizenship and Immigration Canada says constitutes “distance learning.” Ravi Jain, an immigration lawyer at Green & Spiegel LLP, is representing more than 50 students who are having difficulties with their applications for post-graduate work permits, which would allow them to work in Canada for up to three years. Mr. Jain says 30 of his clients have received rejections so far, and around 25 more are still waiting on a decision, but he suspects they will also be denied. The students are all graduates of Niagara College’s general arts and sciences program. Because the students already have a degree from their home countries – India, for the majority of Mr. Jain’s clients – as well as at least one year of additional education in Canada, they were given transfer credits to finish the two-year program in as little as four months. While international students have received work permits in the past after completing the program, this year they are seeing refusals because some of their coursework was done online, which the ministry says makes them ineligible for the permit because it can be considered “distance learning.”
Huffington Post – Harper Government Asked to Delay Arrival of Refugees After Budget Restraints: Memo
The federal government sought to delay the arrival of refugees last year because it was running out of money. A memo was sent to all Canadian missions last November asking them to find people who could be held back from arriving in Canada until 2015 because there were too many in the pipeline and the budget for refugee resettlement was running dry. […]”When it became clear that more funds would be needed to assist the very generous movement of (government assisted refugees) last year, CIC reallocated resources from within existing reference levels to meet the needs of eligible arrivals,” Nancy Caron, a spokeswoman for the Citizenship and Immigration department, said in e-mail. The department did not answer questions about whether the Syrian commitment was the reason the budget was maxing out, nor how many people from elsewhere were held back, saying that those decisions were made by local missions and statistics were not available. “Logistics can sometimes require small numbers of people to wait, but these decisions are made locally and always with the best interests of the people involved taken into consideration,” Caron said.
Radio-Canada – Rencontre pleine d’espoir pour une travailleuse étrangère devenue tétraplégique
La nouvelle ministre albertaine de la Santé, Sarah Hoffman, espère faire avancer auprès de l’immigration canadienne le dossier de Maria Victoria Venancio, une travailleuse temporaire étrangère devenue tétraplégique. La ministre a rencontré jeudi celle qui a été victime d’un accident de la route à Edmonton en 2012 alors qu’elle se rendait au travail. La jeune femme de 29 ans, originaire des Philippines, n’a pas d’assurance médicale pour payer ses soins. Elle survit grâce à des dons, tout en essayant d’obtenir la résidence permanente au Canada. « Je me suis engagé à en discuter avec le ministre fédéral et à défendre ses intérêts », a fait savoir Sarah Hoffman. Elle n’a toutefois rien promis au sujet d’une couverture provinciale, mais s’engage à consulter son ministère pour trouver des solutions. Le précédent ministre de la Santé, Stephen Mandel, avait refusé une couverture à Maria Victoria Venancio.
Radio-Canada – Ottawa a retardé l’arrivée de réfugiés pour des raisons budgétaires
Le gouvernement fédéral a cherché l’an dernier à retarder l’arrivée au pays de réfugiés parce que les budgets pour les accueillir avaient fondu. Dans une note de service, Ottawa demandait en novembre dernier aux missions diplomatiques canadiennes à l’étranger de déterminer les dossiers qui pouvaient attendre jusqu’en 2015. Selon des documents obtenus en vertu de la Loi sur l’accès à l’information, les réfugiés syriens ont toutefois été exclus de cette requête. Certains observateurs critiquaient à cette époque la lenteur du gouvernement canadien quant à la crise des réfugiés syriens. Au moment de l’envoi diplomatique, en novembre 2014, moins de 500 réfugiés syriens s’étaient déjà installés au Canada, alors que le gouvernement fédéral avait promis d’en accueillir 1300 cette année-là. La plupart devaient être pris en charge par le secteur privé, alors que le gouvernement avait pris la responsabilité financière et logistique de l’installation de 200 d’entre eux. Le programme d’aide à l’établissement des réfugiés a un budget de 54,9 millions de dollars, selon le ministère de la Citoyenneté et de l’Immigration (CIC).
