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.
National Post – New Tory Legislation Will Force Deportations of Foreign Criminals and Strip Them of Refugee Protection
The federal government is proposing new legislation to “close the loopholes” that allow foreign criminals to remain in Canada even when convicted of serious crimes or deemed to be a danger to the public, Steven Blaney, Minister of Public Safety said Tuesday. The Removal of Serious Foreign Criminals Act will allow for the mandatory transfer of foreign criminals to their country of origin and strip refugee protection from those later deemed a danger to the public, among other changes. […] The government’s plans is to change several acts to make it easier and faster to remove non-Canadian criminals out of Canada, including some who have already been accorded refugee protection and permanent residency status, he said. It could allow Canada to negotiate treaties that allow the government to transfer criminals without their consent to serve their sentence in their home country, the government says. Currently, Canada cannot transfer a foreign inmate back to their home country without the inmate’s consent. […] The changes will also make foreign nationals and certain permanent residents convicted of serious crimes ineligible for a record suspension, what used to be known as a criminal pardon.
CBC – Toronto Lawyer Suspended for Five Months for Misconduct Involving Roma Refugees
Lawyer Viktor Hohots was handed a five-month suspension by the Law Society of Upper Canada on Monday after admitting he failed to adequately represent thousands of Roma refugee claimants between 2009 and 2013. The sentence prompted several advocates for the Roma to storm out of the meeting calling the sentence a “sham.” […] In a rare move, Leddy, Legal Aid Ontario and the Canadian Romani Alliance had sought intervenor status at the hearing to allow victim impact statements to be heard by the Law Society’s disciplinary panel. That application was rejected. […] Hohots took on more than 5,000 Roma refugee claimants between 2009 and 2013 – almost all Legal Aid cases. He failed to show up for hearings, submit or translate key documents as evidence and he mixed up clients’ stories – all of which undermined their accounts of persecution. Complaints about Hohots by Roma refugee claimants were first filed with the Law Society four years ago. Since then, all but one of those complainants have been deported and so were unable to testify at the hearing.
Medical News Today – Certain Immigrants and Refugees May Face Higher Risk of Psychotic Disorders
Research conducted in Ontario, Canada, has found that immigrants from Bermuda and the Caribbean and refugees from East Africa and South Asia are up to two times as likely to develop psychotic disorders in comparison with the general population. Additionally, the researchers found that immigrants from Northern Europe, Southern Europe and East Asia had around half the risk of developing psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder compared with the general population. […]For the study, the researchers analyzed data from Citizen and Immigration Canada and ICES, following a cohort of 4,284,694 residents of Ontario retrospectively from 1999 for 10 years. Each person followed was between 14 and 40 years of age. During this period, the researchers investigated whether the incidence of psychotic disorders varied between different migrant groups.[…] “The patterns we observe suggest that psychosocial factors associated with the migratory experience and integration into Canada may contribute to the risk of psychotic disorders,” states the senior author of the study, Dr. Paul Kurdyak. These factors include discrimination, adverse and stressful life events, economic hardship and a lack of education.
CBC – Nova Scotia Launches Immigration Stream Aimed at International Students
The Nova Scotia government has created a new immigration stream geared towards international students who have worked in the province for at least a year. Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab says the province will nominate candidates through the provincial nominee program for the federal government’s new express entry system, which cuts down wait times to about six months. Diab says the pilot project is necessary because well-qualified candidates, including international students, were not being selected by Ottawa for express entry under other provincial streams. She says it provides yet another avenue for immigrants hoping to gain permanent residency in the province. The government is allowed to nominate 1,050 immigrants this year under the provincial nominee program, up from 700 last year.
CBC – Express Entry: Early Immigration Data Shows Many Already in Canada
Nearly half of the skilled immigrants who qualified for a chance to obtain permanent residency within the first three weeks of the launch of a new immigration system were not applying from abroad but were already in Canada, CBC News has learned. Canada launched a new system known as express entry on Jan. 1 as a way to recruit the best and brightest of foreign nationals to fill open jobs for which there are no available Canadian workers. The report, obtained by immigration lawyer Richard Kurland through an Access to Information Act request, shows there were 775 candidates who made it to the top of the express entry pool in the lead up to the first-ever draw. The new data lists their country of residence and their citizenship. Where did the candidates come from? Many — 346, or 45 per cent of “the top 775 candidates in the pool” — resided in Canada, according to the Jan. 22 report prepared by the Department of Citizenship and Immigration.
Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada – Communiqué – Lutte contre l’antisémitisme sur la scène internationale
Le Canada se joindra à la communauté internationale en vue de l’élaboration d’un plan mondial de lutte contre l’antisémitisme et autres formes de haine raciale ou ethnique. L’honorable Tim Uppal, ministre d’État au Multiculturalisme, est en route vers Jérusalem où il participera au 5e Forum mondial de lutte contre l’antisémitisme. Cet événement rassemblera des personnalités publiques, des dirigeants politiques, des chefs de la société civile, des membres du clergé, des journalistes, des diplomates, des enseignants et des citoyens concernés qui évalueront la situation de l’antisémitisme dans le monde. Le Forum permettra un échange important de connaissances et contribuera à l’élaboration d’un plan de travail mondial de lutte contre l’antisémitisme. Cette année, le Forum se concentrera sur deux principaux sujets : la lutte contre l’antisémitisme et les discours haineux dans les médias sociaux, et la montée actuelle de l’antisémitisme dans les villes d’Europe.
