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.
The Province – Mexico Not a Safe Place, Rights Activist Says – But the Canadian Government Disagrees
Raul Gatica Bautista fled Mexico for Canada in 2005 with a bullet wound in his stomach and scarring on his face, grim testaments to the abuse the indigenous-rights activist says he suffered at the hands of the Mexican police. Canada accepted him as a refugee then, but Gatica Bautista says this country would turn him away today because of changes last year that placed Mexico on a list of 42 countries deemed safe by the federal government. Asylum seekers from these countries have fewer appeal options and are deported faster than refugee claimants from other countries. On Wednesday, Gatica Bautista and groups of protesters in several cities called on the federal government to take Mexico off the so-called “safe list,” citing the recent disappearance and possible massacre of 43 teaching students in rural Mexico and the ongoing persecution of indigenous-rights activists. […] Citizenship and Immigration Canada declined an interview on the subject, but in an emailed statement spokesman Remi Lariviere said the government placed Mexico on the list last year “because it was determined to be a country that respects human rights, offers state protection and has mechanisms for redress if rights are infringed upon.”
Radio Canada International – Favoriser l’immigration au sein des communautés francophones minoritaires
« C’est immédiatement qu’il faut mettre en place des outils pour appuyer l’immigration francophone ». Cette déclaration de la présidente de la Fédération des communautés francophones et acadiennes (FCFA) du Canada, Marie-France Kenny, survient au milieu d’une réforme majeure du système canadien d’immigration et au lendemain du dépôt d’un rapport publié par le commissariat aux langues officielles du Canada et le commissariat aux services en français de l’Ontario. Ceux-ci insistent sur le fait que le gouvernement fédéral doit tenir compte de la réalité des communautés francophones dans l’élaboration de ses politiques en matière d’immigration. Ottawa ne doit pas seulement prioriser les candidats en fonction de considérations économiques, mais aussi en tenant compte de la force vive que représente l’immigration francophone en situation minoritaire. Le document évoque un déséquilibre migratoire au chapitre de la langue parlée par les nouveaux arrivants et invite le gouvernement à élaborer des outils pour corriger le tir.
Ottawa Citizen – Canada Could Accept Thousands More Syrian Refugees, Minister Was Told
Immigration Minister Chris Alexander was secretly informed in the spring that Canada could accept thousands more Syrian refugees after the United Nations issued a fresh appeal for help resettling 100,000 Syrians. The revelation is contained in internal documents obtained by the Citizen, and comes amid mounting frustration over the Conservative government’s response to the worsening humanitarian crisis. Canada has agreed to accept 1,300 Syrian refugees by the end of this year, and has committed hundreds of millions of dollars to help the nearly 2.5 million Syrians who have fled their war-torn country since 2011. But the government has been silent when pressed by the UN, opposition parties, refugee advocates, the Syrian-Canadian community and other countries such as Turkey to accept thousands more Syrians.
Exchange Magazine – Researcher Calls for National Plan to Address Violence Against Immigrant and Refugee Women
“Between 2008 and 2013, the Canadian government introduced an unprecedented number of legislative and regulatory changes that have affected immigrants’ and refugees’ access to legal representation, access to social and health services, and pathways to permanent residence,” said Associate Professor Rupaleem Bhuyan of the University of Toronto’s Factor Inwentash Faculty of Social Work. Bhuyan is the lead author of Unprotected, unrecognized: Canadian immigration policy and violence against women, 2008-2013. The study is part of the Migrant Mothers Project, a collaborative research project led by Bhuyan in partnership with a network of community groups working to address violence against immigrant women. The report calls for a national plan to address violence against immigrant and refugee women and immigration policies that better support immigrants in precarious circumstances. It calls on the federal government to abolish the two-year conditional status for sponsored spouses, reinstate access to the Interim Federal Health program to all refugee claimants and uphold the privacy of all people who have access to social and health services.
Toronto Star – Salvadoran Man Remains in Deportation Limbo Despite Court Ruling
A Salvadoran man who fears deportation remains holed up in a Vancouver church, more than four months after a Federal Court judge sharply instructed Canada’s immigration bureaucracy to revisit his case on humanitarian grounds. “I’m still in the church,” Jose Figueroa, 47, said Wednesday, speaking on a cellphone from the Walnut Grove Lutheran Church, his home for the past 13 months, as he resists being sent back to his native El Salvador as a supposed “terrorist.” “They have not yet done a redetermination.” Figueroa is one of two Salvadoran men who have run afoul of section 34 (1) (f), a catch-all provision of Canada’s Immigrant and Refugee Protection Act that bars admission to this country to anyone who has ever supported an organization that has sought to subvert a government or that might try to do so in the future.
International education brings in more than $200 million annually to the Manitoba economy. It could be more. A lot more. By keeping pace with the federal government’s goal to double the number of international students by 2020, Manitoba could receive a billion-dollar-plus economic boost over the next five years. In 2012 (the latest year for reported statistics), Manitoba received 7,243 of the 265,400 international students in Canada. This 2.7 per cent share is significantly below our 3.6 per cent share of the Canadian population. By locking in on targets set in the federal government’s international education strategy and reaching our proportionate share by 2020, the economic impact would increase from the current $230 million to $606 million annually. The cumulative difference between maintaining the status quo and keeping pace is $1.5 billion. But for this to happen, we need to take collective action. Canada’s high-quality reputation for education and as a safe, desirable place to live and study make it a destination of choice for many international students. Manitoba benefits from this well-earned reputation, but at the same time it competes with other provinces for students who opt for Canada.
