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 – Migrant Workers Get Little Protection From Workplace Abuse
Across most of Canada, temporary foreign workers fall through the cracks in monitoring and enforcing of employment standards. They’re admitted under a federal program, but the provinces that monitor labour standards don’t know where to find them. They should have the same rights as Canadian workers, but if they complain, their employer can get rid of the problem by simply sending them home. In Ontario, a horrific sexual abuse case is highlighting problems with the structure of the foreign worker program. A Mexican worker was awarded $150,000 by a human rights tribunal after being forced to perform sex acts by an employer under threat of being sent home. The legal aid workers, union activists and experts who helped her in her fight for justice point to the difficulty of uncovering this kind of abuse, when workers are isolated by language and ignorant of their own rights.
Radio-Canada – Le pourcentage permis de travailleurs étrangers passe à 20 %
À partir du 1er juillet, le pourcentage permis de travailleurs étrangers temporaires à rémunération peu élevée passe de 30 à 20 %. L’an prochain à pareille date, le pourcentage passera à 10 % de travailleurs étrangers temporaires. Cette mesure fait partie de la réforme annoncée l’été dernier par le gouvernement Harper, qui souhaite ainsi favoriser l’embauche de Canadiens. Chaque année, grâce au programme des travailleurs étrangers temporaires, des employeurs canadiens embauchent des milliers de travailleurs étrangers pour les aider à faire face aux pénuries de compétences et de main-d’œuvre. C’est le cas de l’industrie du camionnage, qui manque déjà désespérément de chauffeurs. Le directeur général de l’Association des camionneurs dans les provinces atlantiques affirme que les nouvelles restrictions sur l’embauche de travailleurs étrangers temporaires font mal à l’industrie.
Fédération des francophones de Terre-Neuve et du Labrador – Communiqué – Nouvelle Stratégie provinciale de croissance démographique: L’immigration francophone toujours un objectif
La Fédération des francophones de Terre-Neuve et du Labrador (FFTNL) est satisfaite que le gouvernement provincial ait reconduit l’augmentation de l’immigration francophone comme l’un des éléments de sa nouvelle Stratégie de croissance démographique ! Madame Cyrilda Poirier, présidente de la FFTNL, précise « Après avoir insisté durant de nombreuses rencontres auprès des autorités provinciales, sur l’importance de cela pour nos communautés, c’est avec un certain soulagement que nous apprenons, que l’augmentation de l’immigration francophone reste un élément de la nouvelle stratégie du gouvernement de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador. », avant d’ajouter « L’Immigration francophone est indispensable au développement et à la vitalité de nos communautés, et ce afin d’éviter que notre poids démographique ne soit réduit par une immigration qui ne bénéficierait exclusivement qu’à la majorité linguistique. » La FFTNL appelle le gouvernement provincial à maintenant prendre des mesures concrètes pour permettre cette augmentation de l’immigration francophone, en fixant en particulier des objectifs chiffrés, et en facilitant la promotion de notre province dans les pays francophones.
Al Jazeera – Temporary Foreign Workers Fuel Canadian Oil Town’s Service Sector
Alesha Grant hired Ann Klein Caisido almost immediately, though they had only met once via Skype. It is easy to see why. Caisido is the live-in nanny to Grant’s two daughters, 4-year-old Anna and 8-month-old Olivia. […] Caisido is one of about 500 nannies who immigrated to Canada as live-in caregivers and are looking after the children of Fort McMurray. In this town of strip malls and new cookie-cutter suburban developments, the oil sands are by far the main source of employment. They have made its residents the most affluent of any Canadian city, with an average household income of $191,507 Canadian ($152,885 U.S.). This is why the town is nicknamed “Fort McMoney.” However, the town’s residents also work the longest hours in the country, with schedules in the oil patch that often consist of 12-hour shifts for days at a time. This places enormous pressure on families and has created a demand for people like Caisido who are willing to move halfway across the world to work in Fort McMurray’s service industry for a fraction of the wages paid to oil-industry workers.
A Calgary immigration lawyers says the federal government should provide a blanket amnesty for Nepalese citizens working in Canada on temporary permits. “There’s been an unimaginable catastrophe in that country,” said Raj Sharma. “We can do something for them and I think we should do something for them.” Sharma is representing 25 Nepalese living in Calgary and estimates there are about 350 others in Canada under the temporary foreign worker program. […] Sharma is proposing the Harper government give TFWs from Nepal permanent residency, under humanitarian and compassionate grounds, so that they can bring their families to Canada from the earthquake-devastated country. “I don’t think it’s appropriate to send them back now or a year from now or two years for now,” said Sharma.
Edmonton Journal – Paralyzed Filipina Temporary Foreign Worker to Meet with Health Minister
A paralyzed temporary foreign worker left to pay her own medical bills after a biking accident has been promised a meeting with Alberta’s health minister. The former McDonald’s worker is “falling through the cracks of a federal and provincial struggle,” Health Minister Sarah Hoffman said in the legislature Wednesday. A meeting with Maria Victoria Venancio is all Hoffman has planned until the particulars are cleared up, Hoffman’s spokesman Timothy Wilson said Sunday. “Vicky is in a very unfortunate and also very complicated situation. It involves the Alberta health-care system, it involved the temporary foreign worker program and it also now involves the federal immigration program,” Wilson said. The meeting has not yet been scheduled, but the news is encouraging, said Venancio. […] Venancio’s Alberta health-care coverage expired with her work permit after she could no longer work. She relies on donations and a court settlement from the accident to pay her expenses.
