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.
Winnipeg Free Press – Marie Rose Place Offers Affordable Housing for Struggling Single Mothers New to Canada
The $11-million project is a public-private partnership with the federal government and City of Winnipeg providing $2.8 million, the province pitching in $2 million and the developer, Hargrave Holdings Ltd., contributing $6.2 million. The rent-geared-to-income block was a labour of love for Hargrave Holdings president Bob Dick after he read that more than 100 immigrant and refugee single moms and their kids come to Winnipeg on their own every year. They should have a nice, safe home to start over, said Dick. “They’re paying rent. They deserve decent accommodations,” he said. The downtown building is next to busy St. Mary Avenue downtown, but there’s no traffic noise in the well-insulated suites with floor-to-ceiling windows. […] The units are small, but don’t seem cramped because of the high ceilings and huge windows that let in so much light, said architect Hijab Mitra. She grew up in India and studied and worked in Britain, where she gained experience designing social housing in densely populated areas.
Globe and Mail – Canadian Universities Urge Ottawa to Relax Foreign Worker Program Rules
Canadian universities have used the temporary foreign worker program to recruit for approximately a quarter of their new permanent jobs over the last five years, federal government statistics provided to The Globe show – and schools are urging the government to relax new rules they say are hurting their ability to recruit internationally. An agreement is close, postsecondary sources said. […]Universities turned to the TFW program because it has provided a faster, more accessible avenue to hiring foreign academics than the federal skilled workers program, which imposed caps by occupation, including in jobs as university professors. […] Under changes introduced in June, employers offering high-wage positions must have a transition plan for how to shift jobs to Canadian residents. They can also choose to show that they will help a TFW employee become a permanent resident. Yet some universities have had applications for labour market impact assessments (formerly labour market opinions) rejected when they indicated that temporary faculty would become permanent.
Toronto Star – Immigration Program for Parents “Discriminatory,” Federal Court Rules
An appeal court has found that the federal government discriminates against parents and grandparents by delaying their immigration processing. The Federal Court of Appeal ruling this week is a partial victory for Amir Attaran, a University of Ottawa law and medicine professor who applied in 2009 to sponsor his aging parents, both American citizens, to Canada under the family class immigration program. The parental sponsorship program follows a two-step process: the Canadian sponsor has to be assessed for eligibility before the parents or grandparents can be screened for their permanent residency application. In 2010, Attaran complained to the Canadian Human Rights Commission, claiming that the program discriminated against parents and grandparents by delaying the processing of their applications. […] In a ruling released Wednesday, the Federal Court of Appeal said the decision by the human rights commission to dismiss the complaint was unreasonable. It overturned the lower court decision that there was a “bona fide” justification for the differential treatment. The court referred Attaran’s case back to human rights commission for reconsideration.
Toronto Star – Niqab Ban at Citizenship Ceremony Struck Down by Court
The Federal Court of Canada has ruled it is “unlawful” for Ottawa to order new citizens to remove their face-covering veil when taking the oath of citizenship. The federal government must immediately lift its existing ban allowing Toronto’s Zunera Ishaq to reschedule a new citizenship ceremony unless it appeals the ruling and receives the permission to suspend the order, the Federal Court said in a decision released Friday. While it is not unusual to have government policies overturned in breach of Charter and constitutional rights, the court ruling is unusual because the decision was based on the finding that the ban mandated by the immigration minister violated the government’s own immigration laws. […] While the government also argued that the ban was only a guideline that is not even directed at citizenship judges, and which they were free to disregard, the judge found “no such permissive language” in the policy.
La Presse – Gatineau veut un statut particulier en immigration
La Ville de Gatineau demande au gouvernement du Québec de lui reconnaître un troisième statut particulier, en immigration celui-là, mais peine à en démontrer la pertinence devant les députés. En ses qualités de deuxième pôle d’attraction d’immigration au Québec, après Montréal, Gatineau estime que Québec doit considérer une telle avenue. Gatineau souhaite assumer le leadership régional dans l’élaboration d’une « stratégie spécifique » d’immigration et d’intégration. La Ville de Gatineau dit avoir besoin des ressources financières pour lui permettre d’accomplir ce mandat de « concertation ». Il s’agit de la principale recommandation de la conseillère Mireille Apollon, qui présentait, hier, à Québec, le mémoire de la Ville de Gatineau lors des consultations publiques sur une nouvelle politique québécoise en matière d’immigration et d’inclusion. Mme Apollon a cependant eu beaucoup de difficulté à expliquer aux députés, notamment à la péquiste Carole Poirier qui l’a talonnée sur le sujet pendant plusieurs minutes, la pertinence d’une telle reconnaissance.
L’Actualité – Réforme de l’immigration : entrevue avec la ministre Kathleen Weil
Le Québec accueille environ 50 000 immigrants par année. Il lui en faudrait 60 000 pour éviter que sa population en âge de travailler ne décline de façon inquiétante au cours des prochaines décennies, selon les calculs de l’Institut de la statistique du Québec. Kathleen Weil, la ministre de l’Immigration, de la Diversité et de l’Inclusion, vient d’entreprendre une réforme majeure de la politique d’immigration du Québec. Rédigée il y a 25 ans, cette politique n’a jamais été dépoussiérée, mais les besoins du Québec ont changé. Tout est donc sur la table : vision, volume d’immigration, pays de provenance, critères de sélection, intégration des personnes choisies. L’exercice débute par une consultation publique. Jusqu’au 10 février, la ministre écoute la cinquantaine d’experts, d’organismes d’accueil, d’associations d’immigrants et de municipalités qui défilent à l’Assemblée nationale pour faire valoir leur point de vue. Kathleen Weil nous a accordé une entrevue entre deux présentations. […]
