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.
Globe and Mail – Program Aims for Greater Ethnic Diversity on Boards
One in five Canadians is an immigrant, and in 15 years visible minorities will make up nearly a third of this country’s population. But the unelected bodies that hold sway in a community, the boards of public institutions and agencies, typically have significantly fewer immigrants and visible minorities than might be expected given their share of population. How to change that situation is a question that has preoccupied Ratna Omidvar, executive director of the Global Diversity Exchange at Ryerson University. Most of the leaders she lobbies say they want to see change, but don’t know how to achieve it. […] This week Ms. Omidvar announced the national launch of a program aimed to break down the barriers of the old-boy network by identifying, training and selecting qualified board candidates who are also either immigrants or members of a visible minority group. […] The program is called DiverseCity onBoard, and it will expand from Toronto, where it has placed more than 700 candidates on boards over the past several years, to Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa, Hamilton and London.
CBC – Alberta Law Allows Recruiters to Bill Foreign Workers
Even though employment agencies in Alberta are forbidden to charge foreign workers to find them a job, a loophole allows recruiters to bill the workers thousands of dollars. The Fair Trading Act prohibits an employment agency from collecting money “directly or indirectly” from foreign workers, but permits unlimited charges for services “that are not employment agency business services.” Those other services can include job-skills training and resume-writing, but also immigration consulting. Go Public found at least dozen Alberta businesses operating as one-stop shops that act as both recruiter, which cannot charge workers, and immigration consultants, which can. Critics say the practice creates a grey area in which foreign workers may believe they are paying for a job. The rules are inconsistent across western provinces. British Columbia is similar to Alberta, while Manitoba completely bans recruiters from billing workers. In Saskatchewan recruiters can charge for immigration consulting with the worker’s consent, but makes employers pay for any training and resume preparation.
CBC – Temporary Foreign Worker Mass Exodus Expected April 1
A mass exodus of temporary foreign workers is on the horizon, employers and lawyers predict. Beginning April 1, low-skill, temporary foreign workers who have been in Canada at least four years will be forced to leave. Most of those workers are employed in the agricultural and fishing industries. Bill Stevens, the CEO of Mushroom Canada, is pushing for a reprieve. […] Stevens is pushing for a moratorium on the April deadline and for new avenues for low skill temporary foreign workers to achieve permanent residency. Immigration lawyer Maria Fernandes in Windsor, Ont., is pushing for similar changes. […] Under the old rules, which were changed in 2011, workers could simply reapply to continue working for their Canadian employer, Fernandes said. Now, after a temporary foreign worker has reached their four-year cumulative duration limit, they will not be granted another work permit in Canada for an additional four years. After that time has elapsed, the worker will again be permitted to work in Canada.
Vice – Canada is Spending Millions Keeping Immigration Detainees in Jail
Demonstrators at a Family Day rally on February 16 gave speeches expressing solidarity with all inmates at the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Ontario, but they came specifically to demand the release of nearly 150 migrant men who have been detained in the medium to maximum security jail for months and even years at a time as the federal border agency tries and fails to deport them. Many of the Lindsay detainees are from Toronto and the surrounding area, and families travel hours to see them for 20-minute visits behind glass walls. While immigration detentions spanning months and years are not the norm, they appear to be increasingly common; according to a report by the End Immigration Detention Network, which sponsored the rally, the federal government released only 15 percent of the migrants jailed in 2013. […] CBSA says the average cost of detaining one migrant in Canada is $239 a day—overall, the agency spends $54 million annually to detain migrants for non-criminal immigration matters.
Reuters – U.S. Justice Department Asks for Stay to Allow Immigration Action
The U.S. Justice Department on Monday argued that halting President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration from taking effect threatens national security, in a request for an emergency stay to put on hold a Texas judge’s decision that temporarily blocked the actions. The Department of Homeland Security would sustain “irreparable harm” if a stay is not granted, the Justice Department argued in its request. The Obama administration is using a similar argument to push Congressional Republicans to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which they have threatened to shut down in order to block the immigration action. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen issued a court order last week to halt the immigration actions, which would grant temporary relief from deportation for 4.7 million people who are in the United States illegally. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the stalled immigration program would hold undocumented immigrants accountable for following the law and paying taxes rather than living in the shadows and effectively receiving amnesty for illegally crossing the border.
Globe and Mail – Video-Game Firms Press for Flexibility on Temporary Foreign Workers
A week after the federal government agreed to allow universities to be partly self-governing in how they comply with the temporary foreign worker program, the video-game industry is looking for similar flexibility when it recruits workers from abroad. The industry argues that restrictions aimed at employers of low-skilled temporary workers are hurting businesses like theirs that hire highly skilled talent, a position they’ll advocate Tuesday on Parliament Hill. So far, universities are the only group to have won any concessions. […] Entertainment software companies say that even though they work with universities and colleges to increase the number of game developers, their business still has unemployment rates under 3 per cent, and they must look abroad to find experienced workers with specialized skills. […] The industry is also concerned that the new Express Entry immigration system may make it harder to keep employees from offices abroad after their initial work permit expires. It’s an anxiety shared by many other businesses, from finance to mining, according to lawyers advising the firms.
