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.
La Presse – Le SANC plaide pour une meilleure intégration à l’emploi
Comme la Ville de Sherbrooke, le Service d’aide aux Néo-Canadiens a déposé un mémoire à la commission parlementaire vers une nouvelle politique québécoise en matière d’immigration, de diversité et d’inclusion. La directrice de l’organisme, Mercedes Orellana, a notamment plaidé pour une meilleure intégration à l’emploi. «Il arrive souvent qu’on demande à une personne immigrante de compléter sa francisation avant de lui permettre d’occuper un emploi. Nous pourrions penser la francisation de façon concomitante. Une fois que la personne a une connaissance de base, peut-on l’intégrer à l’emploi, lui permettre de travailler, de s’accomplir tout en poursuivant son apprentissage? Elle payerait des impôts en apprenant. Ça coûterait moins cher à la société», explique Mme Orellana. «Nous croyons que n’importe quelle région pourrait accueillir un groupe de personnes immigrantes si les acteurs se sont concertés avant pour créer un milieu de vie attrayant. Pour ce faire, il faut qu’un ou des acteurs aient l’expertise pour aider les régions intéressées à préciser leurs besoins et leur ouverture pour effectuer une démarche d’attraction et de rétention positive», ajoute-t-elle. Dans son propre mémoire, la Ville de Sherbrooke dénonçait la disparition d’une entente de financement pour sa politique d’intégration.
CBC – Canadian Newcomers See Children Take on a Big Family Role
Seventeen-year-old Rachael Kaseke has picked up English quickly, despite only moving to Canada just eight months ago. It’s been a lifeline for her and her family. Among five sisters and three brothers, Rachael has become the official translator. The family moved from Uganda to Regina after fleeing Congo and claiming refugee status. Rachel was able to study English back in Uganda. Her siblings have also picked up the language quickly, but her parents have not been so fortunate. Trips to the bank, hospital, and even grocery store, rely on Rachael’s interpreting skills. […] The Regina Open Door Society has seen this trend among newcomers. It is common place for children to learn a language faster than their parents. What is more surprising, is the changing dynamic it can spark in families settling into Canada. Rachael’s continually on call for important appointments.
CBC – Regina Launches Website Directed at Welcoming Immigrants
The City of Regina has received $30,000 from the federal and provincial governments to launch welcometoregina.ca, which aims to help new immigrants settle in the city. “It’s very important,” Jeremy Harrison, Saskatchewan’s Minister responsible for immigration, said. “Newcomers often have some very, very real challenges being brand new in Canada, brand new in Saskatchewan, and brand new in Regina.” Harrison added the site contains information that many people who have always lived here may take for granted, such as where to shop for groceries. He said the site was created with help from newcomer groups like the Regina Open Door Society, who provided further insight on what new immigrants to Regina often want and need to know. […] The money for the website is administered through Citizenship and Immigration Canada, through an agreement between the federal and provincial governments. It allows for grants toward cities and municipalities that want to provide online information for immigrants. Harrison said Saskatoon, Yorkton, and Moose Jaw have also received help for websites similar to the one created for people arriving in Regina.
CBC – French-Language Rules Make Luring Foreign Professors Difficult, Universities Say
Quebec universities say they’re having trouble recruiting foreign professors due to a French-language requirement they say hinders their ability to attract high-skilled, international talent. Several professors and recruiters at the province’s two major English-language universities said that Quebec’s complex, points-based immigration system puts them at a disadvantage compared to other Canadian and U.S. institutions. In 2013, the Parti Québécois government of the day increased the French requirement needed for immigrants applying for permanent residency, which officials at Concordia and McGill said created recruiting headaches. Quebec’s Immigration Minister Kathleen Weil said in an interview that the government made the immigration system more flexible in December, but universities say it is still too complicated. […] The Liberal government quietly instituted changes in December, giving more “points” to immigrants with PhDs, allowing some applicants to bypass the French requirement and get residency. Permanent residency is important for professors and at some institutions like Concordia, they cannot receive full tenure without it.
Metro News – Immigrants’ First Days in Canada Captured in Travelling Pier 21 Exhibit
A series of “firsts” has marked every newcomer’s arrival in Canada, regardless of era or country of origin. Perhaps the first plane trip, the first winter, the first sight of Canada arriving at a port in Halifax, the first encounter with a countryman from the same homeland, the first English class, the first time of realizing, “I belong.” There are also the stories of the first job landed, the first home, the first taste of freedom, the first day of official citizenship and even the first confrontation with racism and discrimination. These experiences and impressions, told through the recollections of immigrants, are vividly captured in a travelling exhibit, Canada: Day 1, presented by The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, on display at the Markham Museum until June. […]With a $500,000 gift from the RBC Foundation, the national immigration museum has collected personal stories from more than 1,000 immigrants across Canada through its oral history program. It also commissioned original artworks and collected immigration-related archival images for the exhibition, which covers the period from Confederation to today.
Toronto Star – Migrant Construction Workers Sue Ottawa for Discrimination
More than 150 migrant construction workers are suing Ottawa, claiming they have been discriminated against under a program that invites them to work in Canada but welcomes only English-speaking candidates when it comes to letting them stay on permanently. The workers from Italy, Portugal and Poland have been employed in Canada on work permits for at least two years. But under the Federal Skilled Trades (FST) program, they must pass a language proficiency test to be considered for permanent resident status. “They did not require English to have us work here on work permits. When we wanted to stay, they said we needed to pass the English test to qualify,” said Juvenal Cabral, 48, a Portuguese-speaking custom carpenter from the Azores and one of the plaintiffs in the case. “Why are we good enough to work here but not good enough to stay?’ […] In their lawsuit, the Italian, Portuguese and Polish workers said Immigration Minister Chris Alexander and his predecessor, Jason Kenney, have publicly expressed and implemented a program that favours Irish, English and Australian applicants for their “shared values” with Canadians.
