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.
Radio-Canada – Immigration francophone au Canada : la FCFA pose un constat d’échec
La présidente de la Fédération des communautés francophones et acadiennes (FCFA), Marie-France Kenny, a livré un vibrant témoignage, jeudi, sur les défis liés à l’immigration francophone au Canada lors d’une présentation devant le Comité permanent des langues officielles de la Chambre des communes. Elle a souligné que malgré les engagements et les cibles fixées par différents gouvernements, plus de 98% des immigrants qui entrent au Canada sont anglophones. « À plusieurs endroits, ce n’est qu’une question de temps avant que nos communautés tombent en dessous du seuil minimum requis pour recevoir des services et des communications en français des bureaux du gouvernement fédéral », a-t-elle déploré. Mme Kenny a également critiqué « l’absence totale de stratégie pour promouvoir les communautés francophones à l’étranger auprès des immigrants potentiels » et fait référence aux « lacunes criantes qui demeurent au niveau des services d’établissements français ».
The Association for New Canadians is an organization mandated to assist refugees and other permanent residents in settling into Newfoundland. They offer an array of services such as resettlement assistance, language training, and career advising. “Programs are critically important to help people adjust to a new community and to a new country,” emphasized Executive Director, Megan Morris. “Community integration is essential.” While Bill C-35 limits the organization’s ability to assist newcomers with the immigration process, the ANC does provide some services for international students, such as evening English as a Second Language classes and the AXIS Career Services Program, which helps connect students to employers through an array of services. […] The ANC also works to promote increased immigration in the province with their coordinating committee on newcomer integration. This committee looks at ways and means to attract newcomers and has met with the provincial government to promote increasing immigration.
Campbell River Mirror – MISA Launches Local Welcoming Communities Coalition
Campbell River’s Immigrant Welcome Centre has always sought to make the city a welcoming place for newcomers to Canada. Now, it’s extending its reach to embrace all residents. The North Island Welcoming Community Coalition brings together willing partners across a spectrum of public and private service organizations, businesses and individuals who are all in the business of serving people in Campbell River and the Comox Valley. “We can play with anybody,” said Jorgina Little, coalition coordinator. “Anybody can be a partner, if they want to make the city a more welcoming community.” […]The Welcoming Communities Coalition is organized through the Immigrant Welcome Centre, which drafted a proposal and secured funding from Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Little said the North Island chapter has started up with 26 partners in Campbell River and another 20 in the Comox Valley, after estimating 15 partners in its proposal to CIC. […] While the Immigrant Welcome Centre is focussed on assisting Canada’s newcomers with direct, one-on-one services covering everything from navigating the bureaucracy to finding a babysitter, the Welcoming Communities Coalition will allow it to expand into indirect services through referrals and community partnerships.
The Record – Local Group Bridges Gaps in Immigrant Services
Dozens of local service providers got together at the Tannery Thursday night to talk about how to improve the immigrant experience in the region. Actually, most of them volunteer for a group called the Immigration Partnership of Waterloo Region — a collective that integrates services to new immigrants. […] The group doesn’t offer its own programs or services but it works with community agencies to streamline and improve services already available. Manager Tara Bedard said bridging gaps in services is crucial to helping new immigrants settle into the region. They work in housing and health care, employment services and integration — helping newcomers embrace leadership roles in their communities. In 2011 there were 108,720 immigrants in Waterloo Region, making up 23 per cent of the population. That number is expected to rise to 32 per cent by 2031 according to the partnership’s annual progress report. The partnership has three steering committees that focus on three important pillars for successful immigrants: settle, work and belong. There are dozens of similar partnerships hosted by the federal government across the country.
Globe and Mail – Would-Be Immigrant Investors Decry Ban on Iranian Funds
A hundred Iranians who wish to become business immigrants to Canada have written to Foreign Affairs Minister Rob Nicholson complaining that his office delayed their applications for up to two years because of economic sanctions against Iran. The applicants had been selected as immigrants under programs run by Manitoba, British Columbia and Quebec that require them to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in those provinces. However, because of sanctions under the federal Special Economic Measures Act, the applicants cannot transfer money from Iran without a permit from the office of the Foreign Affairs Minister. Canada has banned financial transactions with Iran since November, 2011, and diplomatic relations between the two countries have been suspended since September, 2012. […] In January, 41 of the 54 applicants to Quebec received their ministerial permits after they wrote to Mr. Baird threatening to turn to the courts, and after The Globe and Mail asked the government about their situation. The latest legal letters come from 59 applicants to the Quebec Investor Program and 44 applicants who were selected by Manitoba and British Columbia as part of their provincial nominee programs.
Toronto Star – Global Asylum Claims Rise 45% but Canada Lags in Receiving Refugees
Canada has remained at the bottom of the world’s top-15 refugee receiving countries, according to the UNHCR annual asylum trends report. Worldwide, 866,000 new asylum claims were lodged last year — a 45 per cent increase from 2013, the highest level since 1992 at the beginning of the Balkan conflicts, said the United Nations report to be released in Geneva Thursday. Syrians were by far the largest group among those seeking asylum in 2014, with 150,000 claims, or one-fifth of the total. Iraqis came second, accounting for 68,700 applications, double the number in 2013. […] In 2014, Canada received 13,500 asylum claims, about one-third more than the year before. In comparison, Sweden, a small Nordic country with 9.6 million people and a quarter of Canada’s population, admitted 75,100 refugees last year. The increase of claims in Canada was attributed to the significant drop in 2013, after Ottawa overhauled the refugee determination system in a bid to deter fraud and discourage asylum seekers from coming here. Canada has continued to rank at the bottom of the world’s top 15 refugee receiving countries, from a high of fifth in the world five years ago.
