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.
Georgia Straight – Red Cross Raised Concerns about Vancouver Detention Centre Where Mexican Woman Died
A Red Cross report on Canada’s immigration detention centres raises specific concerns about a B.C. facility where a Mexican woman named Lucia Vega Jiménez reportedly attempted suicide. She died in hospital days later. “In the BC IHC [Immigration Holding Centre] there are no mental health services on hand,” the document states. “Instead persons are sent to other facilities to receive care. This determination is made by a CBSA [Canada Border Service Agency] officer. The lack of regular mental health professionals at this facility is a concern particularly for persons who remain detained in the BC IHC for long periods.” In December 2013, Vega Jiménez was apprehended by Transit Police for failing to produce a TransLink ticket. She was turned over to the CBSA and detained at the B.C. Immigration Holding Centre at Vancouver International Airport. There, awaiting deportation, Vega Jiménez reportedly hung herself in a shower stall. She later died at Mount St. Joseph Hospital on December 28, 2013. According to the Red Cross report, which is dated 2012-13, the organization’s monitoring of CBSA detention facilities across Canada included six visits to the holding centre at Vancouver International Airport. The document describes “mental health in detention” as an area where “protection gaps were present”.
Maclean’s – As Inquest Begins, Another Death in Immigration Custody
A Georgia man charged with child cruelty in connection with the death of his one-year-old foster son—and who recently fled to Ontario and filed a refugee claim—died on the weekend while in custody of the Canada Border Services Agency, Maclean’s has learned. Niagara Regional Police issued a short press release Sunday afternoon, announcing that Ontario’s chief coroner is investigating the case of an inmate who sustained a “serious injury” Sept. 22 and died in hospital five days later. […] News of his death comes as the border agency faces increasing criticism over its handling of immigrant detainees who are locked up pending deportation. By chance, the British Columbia Coroners Service will begin a much-anticipated public inquest Monday morning into a similar case: the death of Lucia Vega Jimenez, a 42-year-old failed refugee claimant from Mexico who hanged herself last December inside a CBSA holding centre at Vancouver International Airport. She died in hospital eight days later. Her death triggered an outcry in B.C., galvanizing advocates who have long demanded independent civilian oversight for an agency with such broad powers of arrest and detention. Many were especially upset that her case was first publicized by a journalist, not the CBSA.
Radio-Canada – Travailleurs étrangers temporaires : Jason Kenney défend la réforme
Le ministre de l’Emploi et du Développement social, Jason Kenney, a défendu la réforme du programme d’embauche de travailleurs étrangers temporaires devant près de 200 entrepreneurs à l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard. Le ministre Kenney était à une réunion de la Chambre de commerce du Canada, à Charlottetown, dimanche matin, où il a prononcé un discours. Des entrepreneurs en ont profité pour exprimer leurs inquiétudes quant à la réforme. Après le discours du ministre, presque toutes les questions qui lui ont été adressées portaient sur cette réforme qui va réduire le nombre de travailleurs étrangers qui pourront être embauchés par une entreprise au Canada. Des entrepreneurs des quatre coins du pays ont souligné que la réforme va faire très mal à leur entreprise. Les contrats des travailleurs étrangers arrivent à échéance, et les employeurs estiment qu’il n’y a pas assez de travailleurs canadiens pour les remplacer.
CBC – Jason Kenney Defends Temporary Foreign Worker Program Reforms
The federal minister of employment is, once again, defending recent reforms to the temporary foreign worker program. Jason Kenney was the keynote speaker at the opening breakfast of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s annual general meeting in Charlottetown this weekend. He says the reforms are positive in every region “because they ensure that Canadians come first to access available jobs.” The minister spent several minutes on the topic and took questions from delegates, many of whom voiced concern. Kathy Hambly, executive director of the Greater Charlottetown Area Chamber of Commerce, says hearing the status quo from Kenney isn’t encouraging and that industry needs more time to transition. “It has really left our employers in a very dire situation particularly in seafood processing, where many don’t know how they’re going to be able to open next year,” she says. […] But Kenney says data indicates there is no labour shortage, that there are Islanders to do the work.
Times Colonist – Refugee Farm Programs in US Offer a Taste of Home, Sense of Settlement – and Extra Cash
The rapidly rising demand for locally grown fruits and vegetables has created a robust new market for refugees who fled violence in their home countries and found peace in farming small plots of land in several U.S. cities. With help from a federal grant program and local charities, refugees like Angelique Hakuzimana in Des Moines, Iowa, are now harvesting crops — some of which are native to their home countries — to meet local demand. They’re also finding their place in new communities through an activity many are accustomed to, the federal program director said. […] 11 organizations [received] grants this year through the federal Refugee Agricultural Partnership Program, which started in 2003 and provides about $1 million a year, said Ron Munia, director of the Division of Community Development in the Office of Refugee Services. The program also has funded plots in New York City; Buffalo, New York; Cleveland, Ohio; Honolulu, Hawaii; Nashville, Tennessee; Providence, Rhode Island; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Tampa, Florida.
The Guardian [Charlottetown] – Immigrants Changing P.E.I.’s Culinary Landscape
Having newcomers choose P.E.I. as their permanent home in Canada has been a challenge. A report by UPEI and the P.E.I. Association for Newcomers to Canada in 2009 found that only 25 per cent of immigrants stayed in the province beyond a couple of years. That statistic is slowly improving (the number is closer to 37 per cent now) in part because newcomers are finding a community of people who share their culture — which includes food and restaurants— already established here. The retention rate of business owners who came through the PNP is about 64 per cent. “P.E.I. is the only province in Atlantic Canada that has grown our population last year, and that’s due to immigration,” said Jennifer Jeffrey, employment services co-ordinator with the P.E.I. Association for Newcomers to Canada. “Most (immigrants to P.E.I.) are coming through the PNP, so they have an obligation to start up a business within two years, so a lot of them are opening restaurants. And, of course, the more people who come and settle here, the more customer base they get here. And those of us who were born on P.E.I. get to try different foods that they get in other cities, and we benefit from that as well.”
