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.
Toronto Star – Canada Should Offer Haven to More Caught in Global Refugee Crisis
Last year Canada took in some 12,000 refugees, roughly split between government-assisted and privately sponsored, and we accepted 8,000 asylum claims. Despite a sharp dip in 2012 the refugee intake has been largely stable for the past 20 years. But relative to the size of our population, which has grown 23 per cent in that time, it is hardly impressive. And we’ve seen nothing on the scale of our decision 35 years ago to take in 60,000 Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian “boat people” in just 18 months. […] It’s especially discouraging at a time when the UN reports the need is so great. The formal global refugee population has swelled to nearly 17 million, and asylum-seekers to 1 million. Another 33 million are internally displaced within their own borders.
FCFA – Communiqué – 2e Semaine nationale de l’immigration francophone : un succès sur toute la ligne
Un total de 102 activités, 35 villes et régions, neuf provinces et un territoire : la FCFA est très satisfaite des résultats de la Semaine nationale de l’immigration francophone 2014, qui s’est terminée samedi. Pour la Fédération, l’événement, qui en était à sa deuxième édition, a réellement connu un retentissement partout au pays. « Au-delà des activités, ce qu’on remarque c’est la participation de nos médias, tant les journaux et les radios communautaires que Radio-Canada et TFO. Partout au pays, on a parlé d’immigration francophone la semaine dernière ; on a entendu, vu et lu des témoignages de nouveaux arrivants d’expression française, on a fait ressortir les défis et les succès, on a mis en valeur les structures et les services d’établissement en français. En termes de sensibilisation, c’est un grand succès », déclare la présidente de la FCFA, Marie-France Kenny. À cet égard, la FCFA tient entre autres à souligner la contribution des stations régionales de Radio-Canada qui, en ces temps difficiles pour la société d’État, ont plus que jamais démontré leur pertinence en couvrant les activités de la Semaine et en diffusant des portraits d’immigrants dans nos communautés.
Radio-Canada – Des coupes dans le milieu de l’immigration dénoncées
Les régions craignent de perdre une voie d’accès aux travailleurs immigrants. Des organismes qui s’occupent du programme de régionalisation accusent le gouvernement Couillard de leur imposer des coupes tellement importantes qu’elles compromettent leur survie. Ils accusent le gouvernement Couillard de détourner à d’autres fins les 320 millions de dollars qu’ils reçoivent annuellement par le fédéral pour l’intégration des travailleurs immigrants. Ils estiment recevoir seulement 16 millions de cette somme. « On trouve ça très menaçant parce qu’en plus d’avoir 5 % de cette portion d’argent, on a été coupés et c’est cette incertitude-là qui nous a fait se mobiliser », affirme Éva Lopez, qui dirige le bureau d’intégration communautaire des immigrants de Chaudière-Appalaches. Lundi matin, des élus ont d’ailleurs joint leur voix aux représentants des services communautaires d’aide à l’intégration des immigrants en région pour dénoncer la situation.
CBC – Ismael Omar Awaleh Could Be Deported Before Ottawa Police Face Assault Charges
A man who alleges he was assaulted by two Ottawa police officers could be deported to Somalia before the case goes to court. The Special Investigation Unit charged Constables Erin Cavan and Jordan Blonde with assaulting a man in their custody last May. The CBC has learned the alleged victim — 32-year-old Ismael Omar Awaleh — is being held at the Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), on an outstanding order for his removal from Canada to Somalia. His lawyer, Paul Lewandowski, hopes Awaleh will not be deported before the officers face the assault charges in criminal court. But, he adds, he’s not excluding that possibility. […] Awaleh has been in detention since May, according to his lawyer, Paul Lewandowski. Initially, Awaleh served jail time after pleading guilty to criminal charges against him. But, subsequently, he was placed in the custody of the CBSA. He’s being held indefinitely at the Ottawa detention centre while authorities consider his deportation. He hasn’t been in Somalia since he arrived in Canada as a refugee when he was four years old. The impact of the SIU charges on his removal process from Canada is unclear.
Globe and Mail – Documents Reveal CBSA Expected Scrutiny for Contracting Out Security
The Canada Border Services Agency was aware it could face scrutiny for contracting out security positions at the holding centre where a Mexican national died by suicide last December, freedom-of-information documents have revealed. […] A memo titled “Communications Approach,” that was issued by CBSA regional director Perry Boldt on the day Ms. Vega Jimenez was discovered, outlined “reactive media lines” should there be questions from the public. In part, it noted that the death occurred at a detention centre where CBSA uses contracted security agents from Vancouver-based Genesis Security. […] Last month, a coroner’s jury heard that the private security firm had made mistakes, including not having a female security guard present and missing some checks of detainees.
Globe and Mail – Canada’s Ebola-Related Visa Restrictions Criticized for Being at Odds with Science
During the SARS outbreak in 2003, when a number of countries placed travel restrictions on Canadians and the World Health Organization issued an advisory urging travellers to avoid Toronto, an epicentre of the outbreak, the federal government objected vociferously, saying there was no justification for those moves. Canada subsequently pushed hard for the International Health Regulations, a treaty that, among other things, says any such restrictions on travel must be backed by good science. Yet, in response to the remote threat of Ebola coming to Canada, the federal government has imposed a 90-day wait on the issuing of visas for anyone who has travelled or even plans to travel to the hardest-hit countries – Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Public-health experts say the move, among the toughest responses worldwide, contradicts current science.
