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.
Times Colonist – Temporary Foreign Workers Eyed for Natural Gas Jobs
The provincial government is looking at putting temporary foreign workers into the natural gas industry to fulfil immediate labour needs. “We are in ongoing discussions with the federal government to make sure we have an immigration system that matches labour market needs,” said Shirley Bond, Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training. Her ministry later confirmed that these discussions would include the idea of temporary foreign workers to fill immediate LNG labour needs.
Macleans – Cogeco CEO Louis Audet Says Quebec’s Proposed Values Charter Harmful to Economy
The head of cable and media company Cogeco Inc. has stepped into Quebec’s political debate about a charter to promote secular values, saying it’s scaring off immigrants. Cogeco chief executive Louis Audet said Quebec’s proposed charter of values, which would restrict the wearing of religious symbols by public sector employees, will harm the province’s economy. “At this time, the charter is causing fear among immigrants,” Audet said after a speech in which he criticized the proposed charter of values. […] “This message isn’t of a nature to attract immigrants, which we depend on for our economic growth.” “Not only will it discourage them, it may incite some who are already here to leave,” he added. […] But Premier Pauline Marois has said the charter doesn’t worry foreign investors who might be interested in setting up shop in Quebec and recently announced in London that two companies would be heading to Montreal to do business.
The Record – Former Admirers Lose Faith in Alexander
There was a brief surge of optimism among humanitarian groups when Chris Alexander was named minister of citizenship and immigration six months ago. The Ajax MP spent 18 years as a diplomat, served as Canada’s first resident ambassador in Afghanistan and went on to become a special representative of the United Nations assistance mission in Afghanistan. […] The last thread snapped a week ago when Alexander lambasted Ontario for its “scandalous” decision to provide medical care to “bogus” asylum seekers. […] Alexander ratcheted up his rhetoric the following day in a testy interview with CBC Radio host Matt Galloway. “We won’t have our policy made by doctors, ” he declared. […] Speaking directly to listeners, he asked: “Do you really want your tax dollars to be spent on bogus, rejected refugee claimants?” (Before answering, consider this: the refugee health program cost $84.6 million when the Tories killed it. That is five one-hundredths of one per cent of public health spending in Canada.)
Radio Canada International – Charte des valeurs : polémique autour de la laïcité de l’État
L’organisme « Pour les droits des femmes du Québec » s’inquiète qu’une femme d’origine maghrébine et musulmane soit menacée pour son appui au projet de charte des valeurs du gouvernement québécois. Selon Michèle Sirois, présidente de PDF-Québec, c’est ce genre d’intimidation lié à l’intégrisme religieux que son groupe rejette. PDF-Québec appuie la laïcité telle que proposée par le projet de loi 60 du gouvernement péquiste de la première ministre du Québec Pauline Marois. Hier, le groupe « Indépendantistes pour une laïcité inclusive » a fait une sortie contre le projet de charte du gouvernement en affirmant qu’il s’agissait d’une chasse aux sorcières, puisque le projet de loi veut lutter contre un ennemi en grande partie fabriqué.
National Post – Immigrant Couple Loses Appeal to Regain Medicare Coverage Revoked for Spending Too Much Time Outside Canada
B.C., like most provinces, requires that patients spend at least six months annually in the jurisdiction to benefit from medicare, and alleged Sayed Geissah and Souad Khalaf had lived most of the past several years in the Middle East. The pair had argued that the Canadian citizenship they obtained gave them the right to reside wherever they wanted, and that B.C.’s medicare agency could not force them to live in Canada when it was too expensive for them to do so. The Court of Appeal said in a judgment this month that the province had acted legally when it retroactively stripped them of coverage for a nine-year period. It may be the first time the courts have ruled on medicare residency laws, and has potentially broad ramifications given that millions of Canadians live in other countries, said Sergio Karas, a Toronto immigration lawyer.
In early September, as the academic year settles in at the University of Toronto’s three campuses, a handful of students arrive at Pearson Airport, anxiously awaiting the start of their university careers. These students are refugees, sponsored through the collaborative efforts of the University of Toronto and the World University Service of Canada (WUSC). […] In spite of its broad impact, WUSC is a little-known entity on campus. Many students are unaware of the role they play in supporting student refugees through the SPR. The SPR is made possible through the WUSC levy, a fund that each student at the university contributes to. The fee itself is nominal, but its reverberations for the refugee students are quite significant. The fees allow them to leave their countries of asylum and enter Canada as permanent residents in order to pursue an undergraduate degree, with assistance provided by the levy.
