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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.
The Guardian – The Guardian View on Syrian Refugees: More Should be Allowed to Come to the U.S.
Amnesty International, Christian Aid, Islamic Relief and other organisations appealed last week for the British government to take many more refugees. In the spring of last year, the Home Office minister, James Brokenshire, announced that: “Our country has a proud history of granting protection to those who need it … we have launched the Syrian vulnerable persons relocation (VPR) scheme to provide protection in this country to particularly vulnerable refugees who are at grave risk.” […] The government might defend its policy on grounds of squalid realpolitik. It has given a lot of money to the support of refugees within Syria and the neighbouring countries. The British government is not alone in making promises it cannot live up to and has no intention of trying to keep. The only European countries to respond to the Syrian emergency with anything approaching generosity have been Germany and Sweden – and in both the government is facing a populist backlash against such decency. […] If 10 times as many of the most vulnerable people were admitted from Syria as are at present, that would still only be a thousand a year.
Le Devoir – L’avenir de l’immigration passe par les régions, dit Charles Taylor
Le philosophe Charles Taylor, qui a coprésidé avec Gérard Bouchard la commission de consultation sur les demandes d’accommodement religieux en 2008, est d’avis que le gouvernement Couillard devrait inciter bien davantage les candidats à l’immigration à s’installer en région plutôt qu’à Montréal. En entrevue à La Presse Canadienne, M. Taylor a dit que le gouvernement devrait conclure une sorte de marché avec les étrangers intéressés à vivre au Québec: ils s’engageraient pendant une période donnée, disons cinq ans, à demeurer en région pour y occuper un emploi précis et en échange leur dossier serait traité en priorité. L’avantage de ce procédé serait double: disperser l’immigration et combler les emplois vacants en région. «Ce sera une espèce de marché qu’on conclut avec une personne: il y a ce travail concret, on a beaucoup de mal à le remplir. Vous allez le remplir, alors là on est très d’accord pour vous faire passer rapidement à travers toutes les étapes» du processus de sélection, a-t-il illustré. Entre 2009 et 2013, deux immigrants sur trois (70 %) ont choisi de prendre racine à Montréal. Si on inclut Laval et la Montérégie, on découvre que la très grande majorité (84 %) des nouveaux arrivants s’implantent dans la métropole ou autour, dans ce qu’il est convenu d’appeler le «450». Leur présence en région paraît infinitésimale: 0,1 % ont choisi la Gaspésie, 0,2 % l’Abitibi et 0,3 % le Saguenay, durant la même période.
Toronto Star – Germany Housing Refugees in Former Death Camps
The German city of Augsburg decided to turn a branch of the former death camp at Dachau into a refugee centre. The asylum seekers were slated to live in a building where thousands of slave labourers suffered and died under the Nazi regime. The Dachau outpost is not the only concentration camp site that is being turned into a refugee centre in Germany. In the middle of January, the German city of Schwerte started to move asylum seekers who had volunteered to be relocated into a branch of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald. […] Birgit Naujoks, a representative of a local council of asylum seekers, voiced similar skepticism about such projects, speaking to the Washington Post on Friday: “Generally, the use of former concentration camp compounds as refugee centres awakens associations with the site’s Nazi-era [use], where people were forcefully herded together,” she said. She added, however, that the refugees living at the former death camp compound in Schwerte were so far happy with their accommodations, despite its history. “They say that they have much more space there compared to the building they had previously lived in,” Naujoks said.
Le gouvernement Couillard entend réformer les règles d’immigration dans l’espoir, notamment, qu’elles permettent de mieux répondre aux problèmes de rareté de main-d’oeuvre. Moins habituée que d’autres à accueillir des travailleurs étrangers, la région de Québec compte aujourd’hui de plus en plus sur leur aide en la matière. La ministre québécoise de l’Immigration, Kathleen Weil, ne s’en cache pas. L’un des principaux objectifs de la réforme qu’elle vient de mettre en branle est de nature économique et vise à dénicher à l’étranger, avec le plus de précision possible, les talents qui manqueront aux entreprises québécoises. La tâche ne sera pas facile, admet-on, non seulement parce qu’il faudra aussi trouver le moyen de mieux intégrer qu’on ne le fait actuellement cette main-d’oeuvre venue d’ailleurs, mais également parce que le Québec n’est pas seul à en avoir besoin. La région de la capitale fait face à des défis semblables, mais à une autre échelle.
CBC – Anti-Terrorism Powers: What’s in the Legislation?
Canada’s government on Friday introduced its new anti-terror legislation, a sweeping range of measures that would allow suspects to be detained based on less evidence and let CSIS actively interfere with suspects’ travel plans and finances. The new bill, C-51, is only 62 pages long but contains a variety of increased powers for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). […] Currently, Division 9 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act allows the government to ask the court to protect classified information in immigration proceedings to protect investigation techniques and witnesses. But that application comes at the end of a proceeding. The measure would allow the government to ask for proceedings to be sealed at any point in the process.
Calgary Herald – Stress Levels High as Thousands of TFWs Face April 1 Deadline to Return Home
Alberta could see a significant increase in undocumented, illegal immigrants as thousands of temporary foreign workers grappling with the looming loss of their work permits try to find a way to stay in the province. That’s the message from immigration lawyers and migrant worker advocates, who warn the federally imposed deadline of April 1 — the date on which any TFW who arrived in 2011 or earlier will see their contract expire — is creating a glut of panicked foreign nationals trying desperately to secure permanent residency before they are forced home. […] Jobs Minister Ric McIver said he estimates “several thousand” foreign workers currently living in Alberta will see their permits expire as of April 1, adding his office is fielding many calls from employers fearful of losing some of their best and most experienced employees. […] Holthe and Luciano [see full article] say foreign workers, many of whom came to Alberta on a correct-at-the-time assumption that becoming a TFW was a pathway to permanent residency, have had the rules changed on them mid-stream.
