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.
Chronicle Herald – Food Industry Wants Foreign Workers for Jobs Canadians Don’t Want
Backlash against the temporary foreign worker program has made Ottawa leery of finding a new way for the food-processing sector to get the people it needs to fill vacant jobs, officials say. Mark Chambers is with an industry group that has presented a plan to the federal government on how it should deal with a labour shortage that he says is hobbling exports. It calls for a new program to make it easier to hire foreign workers who would become permanent residents of Canada and ultimately citizens, he said. […] Chambers said the federal government wants the industry to hire Canadians to fill vacant jobs in slaughter and processing plants in rural areas. So does the industry, he said, but Canadians who live in urban areas with high unemployment just don’t want the available jobs. The meat industry estimates it is currently short about 1,000 workers. That will be exacerbated July 1 when the federal government is to cap the number of new foreign workers that companies can hire at 20 per cent.
Globe and Mail – Secrecy Shrouds Death of “Agitated” Man in Canadian Immigration Custody
A cloak of secrecy shrouded the death of a man in the custody of Canada’s immigration authorities Friday, with details sketchy and his identity and nationality withheld. However, an activist group that works with detainees said the man died from a lack of effective medical care for his diabetic condition and said it would release his name after he’s buried in Toronto later on Friday. The group, End Immigration Detention Network, accused Canada Border Services Agency of a lack transparency and decried its use of prisons to hold people not charged with any crime. “CBSA is clearly unwilling to act on the death and misery caused by immigration detention,” the network’s Syed Hussan said in a statement. […] On Friday, a spokeswoman for the border agency refused to elaborate beyond confirming the SIU investigation of the death and the fact the coroner’s office had been contacted. […] Coroner’s juries have criticized the border agency in the past for how it dealt with detainees with medical needs — especially in terms of providing medical authorities with proper health records.
Guelph Mercury – Ontario Family Shares Struggle of Immigration Detention with Guelph Audience
Sixteen-year-old Melika Mojarrab was looking forward to her stepfather teaching her how to drive. Now she only sees him for 20 minutes at a time, from behind glass, when she and her mom, Pam Shiraldini, make the two-hour trek to Central East Correctional in Lindsay, Ont. Masoud Hajivand has not been convicted of any crime. But he’s been held in maximum security for almost a year. He’s one of hundreds of people being held in detention centres around the country with no idea when, or if, they’ll see their families again. […] She and her mom were in town from Richmond Hill to speak at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic High School as part of Equity and Social Justice Presentation Day, organized by teacher Yvonne Runstedler. The story has a special significance for the Guelph school. One of its own students, Nallely Enriquez, was deported to Mexico with her family in 2012 after their refugee claim was rejected, despite a campaign by the school to keep them in Canada.
Digital Journal – Station Chaos Deepens Italy Migrant Crisis
Italy’s immigration crisis intensified Friday after a build-up of asylum-seekers at two major train stations resulted in clashes with police, an outcry from the right and fresh calls from Rome for EU help. Milan Central and Rome’s Tiburtina station were left looking like refugee camps at times this week as hundreds of migrants heading to northern Europe saw their progress delayed or halted by a temporary reintroduction of border controls due to Monday’s summit of G7 leaders in Germany. […] The Schengen open borders accord means migrants landing in Italy can usually easily travel through neighbouring France, Austria, Switzerland and Slovenia as they seek to make it to Britain, Germany and Scandinavia. But the G7 suspension of Schengen and a growing number of spot checks on buses and trains has made that harder, increasing the pressure on Italy, where reception facilities are at breaking point with 76,000 people being accommodated nationwide.
CBC – Conservative and Liberal MPs Trade Allegations of Intolerance in the House
The heated question period exchange began when McCallum asked Alexander to apologize to Muslim Canadians for his comments about women who wear niqabs. “It’s the most predictable thing in Canadian politics. Someone says ‘Muslim’ and a Conservative minister says, ‘terrorist,'” McCallum said, adding that Alexander “assumed all Muslim women who wear the veil are terrorist unless proven otherwise.” Alexander, in turn, accused McCallum of putting words in his mouth […] McCallum responded by accusing the Conservative Party and Prime Minister Stephen Harper of “toxic anti-Muslim rhetoric” as a contributing factor to rising hate crimes against that community. […] Alexander called McCallum’s statements “outrageous untruths” and went on to ask the Liberal Party to apologize for its own actions dating back to 1921, when William Lyon MacKenzie King was prime minister. He said MacKenzie King blocked the immigration of South Asians, East Asians and Caribbeans, and also accused former prime ministers Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Jean Chrétien of the “injustice of backlogs.”
Global News – Why Sweden is Studying Canada’s Immigration System
Sweden’s Minister of Employment, Ylva Johansson, is visiting Canada this week to learn about our immigration system: meeting with Immigration Minister Chris Alexander and various officials and settlement organizations to figure out how we integrate newcomers. […] Immigration is currently a huge issue for Sweden. For a small country of fewer than 10 million people, it punches well above its weight when it comes to immigration. It accepted 31,220 asylum seekers last year alone, according to statistics from the Swedish Migration Agency. […] “What is impressing me most is how this is regular in Canada. For universities, for municipalities, for employers to be part of this integrating newcomers into the society and into the labour market. This is not the normal case in Sweden.” […] She does think that Canada could improve in a few ways though. Namely, she doesn’t understand why Canadian politicians think that the way to get newcomers into the job market is to simply select more desirable newcomers in the first place. […] And additionally, she thinks Canada could be doing more to help refugees.
