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 – Tours Help Refugee Claimants Navigate Asylum Hearings
On a recent Thursday, 11 asylum seekers streamed into Hearing Room 9 on the fourth floor of the Immigration and Refugee Board’s Toronto headquarters on Victoria St. But not to have their cases heard. Instead, pen and notepaper ready, the claimants from nine countries paid careful attention to “tour guide” Dan Crawford, as he offered tips that could mean a lot to the success of their asylum claims. Crawford, an analyst with the refugee board, has presented more than 10 such READY orientation tours for GTA refugee claimants since May, an effort to help them navigate the asylum hearing process and learn about what to do and not to do at the proceeding. […] In light of the rapid changes Ottawa has made to expedite the asylum process, the Coalition of Service Providers for Refugee Claimants in Southern Ontario has partnered with the refugee board and the United Nations Refugee Agency to host the biweekly tours. Similar initiatives are also available to refugee claimants in Vancouver and Montreal.
Radio-Canada – Obama repousse sa réforme de l’immigration
Le président des États-Unis, Barack Obama, a décidé d’attendre après les élections de mi-mandat, en novembre, avant de prendre des mesures officielles au sujet de l’immigration, revenant ainsi sur son engagement d’agir avant la fin de l’été. Cette décision a provoqué la colère de groupes militant pour la réforme de l’immigration, tout en rassurant certains candidats démocrates qui seront vulnérables le jour de l’élection. Deux sources à la Maison-Blanche ont précisé que le président croit qu’imposer une décision à ce sujet en pleine campagne de mi-mandat politiserait l’enjeu et nuirait à toute tentative future de faire adopter une réforme de l’immigration. Selon ces mêmes sources, qui ont fait ces révélations sous le couvert de l’anonymat avant l’annonce officielle par le gouvernement, M. Obama a pris cette décision vendredi, alors qu’il rentrait à Washington après le sommet de l’OTAN, au Pays de Galles.
Citizenship and Immigration Canada News Release – Montréal Welcomes More than 3,500 New Canadians
This week, Montréal welcomed approximately 3,500 new Canadian citizens from more than 70 countries. Ceremonies like these demonstrate how the government is working to make the citizenship program more efficient, helping more people realize their dream of becoming Canadian sooner. Recent changes to the Citizenship Act, which received Royal Assent on June 19, 2014, will allow for further improvements to the efficiency of the citizenship program. The new streamlined decision-making process and other changes to the Citizenship Act are expected to bring the processing time for citizenship applications down to under one year and reduce the citizenship application backlog by more than 80 percent by 2015-2016.
CBC – Canadian Immigration Law: Too Much Red Tape and No Customer Service
One only needs to look at the general red tape that bogs down the immigration system to see how frustrating immigration is for our future neighbours, employees and taxpayers. One breathtaking example is the number of pages an individual has to fill out to immigrate to Canada. For instance, if a Canadian wants to sponsor their foreign spouse to Canada, at least 29 pages of forms have to be filled out. While many questions in these 29 pages are necessary, within these 29 pages, the foreign spouse can be asked up to six times to enter their date of birth. Surely, in the 21st century, the government can streamline some of these questions. Asking prospective immigrants the same question multiple times is not in any way efficient. […] Over the last year, Citizenship and Immigration Canada has changed numerous forms, multiple times, without warning. When an individual submits an outdated form, that individual runs the risk of having their immigration application returned.
CBC – Teaching Immigrants English Tutors Barred from Solo Home Visits
Some English-as-a-second-language tutors and their students are concerned about a new Nova Scotia policy that prevents teachers from visiting students’ homes alone. The Teaching Immigrants English program is meant to assist immigrants living in rural areas with their English skills. Tutors lead small groups, classes, or individual lessons. For students who are unable to make it to public spaces like a library, tutors travel to their homes for one-on-one instruction. For this school year, the Nova Scotia Office of Immigration has decided there must be at least two people on a home visit for occupational health and safety reasons. […]The office of immigration says it is prepared to make accommodations on a case-by-case basis for students who need home instruction. It stresses that no one will be left without tutoring, and it will be working out the details over the next few weeks. A possible solution would be partnering with other agencies such as the YMCA, which also makes home visits.
Le Quotidien- Portrait xénophobe de Saguenay par une agence française
Une dépêche provenant de l’Agence France-Presse publiée depuis hier par différents médias français fait sourciller Mustapha Elayoubi, président de l’Association islamique du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean et co-fondateur de la mosquée musulmane de la rue Bégin. Intitulée Saguenay, tranquille ville du nord du Québec confrontée à la xénophobie, le papier écrit par Anne Levasseur fait un retour « sur une série d’actes racistes s’étant déroulés à Saguenay et qui auraient supposément ébranlé tout le Québec ». Il est question de l’éclaboussement par du sang de porc de la mosquée survenue en août 2013 et de la pose d’autocollants haineux « dans un quartier d’immigrants » ainsi que de la présence d’affiches avec l’inscription « ville blanche ».
