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.
CBC – Ottawa to Stop Paying Failed Refugee Claimants to Leave Canada
A controversial government program which tried to get failed refugee claimants out of the country faster by essentially paying them to leave won’t be renewed after a scathing internal evaluation. The assisted voluntary return and reintegration pilot program, or AVRR, was supposed to save time and money by getting low-risk failed claimants to leave on their own instead of having border agents enforce deportation orders. But an evaluation by Canada Border Services Agency found that’s not what happened. […] “Like many aspects of the refugee reform, the pilot program was designed based on a set of assumptions that could not be validated prior to launch, some of which proved not to be accurate,” the evaluation said. Among them: the idea that giving people money to help them resettle in their home countries would convince them to stop trying to appeal negative decisions.
Radio-Canada – Les États-Unis ouvrent le dialogue avec Cuba, mais restent prudents
Les États-Unis ont déployé des navires supplémentaires dans le détroit de Floride pour arrêter les bateaux de fortune de réfugiés cubains, mais ont refusé d’apporter des changements profonds à ses règles d’immigration, au premier jour des discussions entre Washington et Cuba, les premiers pourparlers officiels entre les deux pays en plus de trois décennies. Cuba a demandé aux États-Unis de cesser d’accorder automatiquement un droit de résidence aux Cubains arrivant en sol américain. Le gouvernement cubain blâme des pratiques datant « de la Guerre froide », qui attirent ses citoyens et les poussent à faire le périlleux voyage entre l’île et la Floride. Les autorités américaines ont signalé une hausse des tentatives de traversée du détroit depuis l’annonce de négociations visant à rétablir des liens diplomatiques entre les deux pays, le 17 décembre. Le nombre de bateaux en mer semble avoir diminué au cours des derniers jours. Le secrétaire à la Sécurité intérieure, Jeh Johnson, a annoncé que des vedettes de la Garde-Côtière seront déployées pour empêcher que des immigrants cubains et haïtiens arrivent aux États-Unis. Il a toutefois ajouté que les Cubains qui parviendront aux États-Unis ne seront pas déportés.
Moose Jaw Times Herald – Landlords Creating Barriers for Newcomers
A 44-year-old single refugee living in Moose Jaw was evicted from his home while he was in the hospital for an emergency procedure. […] He was homeless upon his release from the hospital and moved into a men’s shelter. When he finally found someone who would rent to him the apartment was so unfit that he willfully spent his nights back at the shelter. His story is common among immigrants and refugees living in Moose Jaw with many landlords making it hard for newcomers to settle in the city. According to the Moose Jaw Multicultural Council (MJMC), single mothers have been sexually harassed while others get verbally abused. Like the 44-year-old male, some get unlawfully evicted. Discrimination and racism are growing problems in Moose Jaw as more immigrants continue to settle within the community. For many, finding a place to rent is especially hard. “It’s an issue for every client we’ve had coming here. Just to find housing is a challenge for every single client” said Lauren Stennett, settlement worker for the MJMC.
In an effort to help ease the pain for hundreds of Syrians fleeing war, Quebec is planning to significantly increase the number of refugees it welcomes to the province this year. Called the worst humanitarian crisis in decades by the United Nations, almost 200,000 Syrians have died and an estimated 9 million people have been displaced due to a violent civil war. Currently, a dozen countries are accepting Syrian refugees. Among them is Canada – and Quebec is reaching out to help. […] Canada’s new commitment is 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next three years; Quebec will take in almost one quarter of those. Most refugees are assisted by religious groups, aid organizations, or family, who help them find a new home in the province. Quebec’s immigration ministry took a moment Tuesday to thank the numerous groups who have opened their arms to the crestfallen, calling them indispensable.
CBC – Refugee Health-Care Advocates Criticize Government Inaction
Lorne Waldman, a lawyer for Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care, will be back in Federal Court on Tuesday to try to force the government to comply with a July 2014 decision that reversed changes to refugee health care introduced two years earlier. […] Judge Anne Mactavish ruled the federal cabinet has the power to make such changes and that the procedure was fair, but that the 2012 modifications put lives at risk, including the lives of children. Mactavish gave the government until Nov. 4 to reinstate the health care. The government waited until the last possible day to return some health care to refugees pending its appeal to the Federal Court of Appeal. Mactavish’s ruling also rolled back a change the Conservatives made to a 1957 Cabinet order that provided for refugee health care. […] The Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers and the Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care, however, say the government re-repealed that measure on Nov. 6, 2014, only two days after it was supposed to restore the health coverage. […] A spokesman for Immigration Minister Chris Alexander declined an interview request and responded by email. He called the court ruling “flawed.”
Radio-Canada – Recrutement de travailleurs immigrés
Le recrutement, l’intégration et la rétention des nouveaux arrivants seront certainement encore au coeur de l’actualité en Saskatchewan cette année. Depuis quelques semaines, Ottawa a mis en place un nouveau programme pour recruter des travailleurs qualifiés, le programme Entrée Express. Ce programme est décrié par la Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne du Canada, qui reproche au gouvernement fédéral de ne pas prendre en compte les besoins spéciaux des communautés francophones hors-Québec. Grégory Bernard en a discuté avec Alpha Barry, directeur régional de Afrik Interim Canada, une agence internationale de ressources humaines.
