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.
Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada – Communiqué- Le Canada et les États-Unis s’engagent à accélérer et à assouplir la tenue des activités commerciales transfrontalières
Le ministre de la Citoyenneté, de l’Immigration et du Multiculturalisme, Jason Kenney, le ministre de la Sécurité publique, Vic Toews, ainsi que la secrétaire du département de la Sécurité intérieure (DHS) des États-Unis, Janet Napolitano, ont rendu public aujourd’hui un rapport faisant état des progrès réalisés pour faciliter la tenue des activités commerciales transfrontalières. […] L’historique Plan d’action canado-américain « Par-delà la frontière », annoncé par le premier ministre Stephen Harper et le président Barack Obama en décembre 2011, fournit une feuille de route pratique en vue de l’accélération du commerce et des déplacements légitimes canado-américains transfrontaliers, tout en renforçant la sécurité. Ce plan accélérera la circulation des personnes et des biens entre les deux pays, favorisera la création d’emplois et la compétitivité économique, tout en renforçant la sécurité des deux pays
The Guardian – Attracting Newcomers Requires a Team Approach, Says DeFehr
One of the country’s more well known immigration activists says encouraging newcomers to come to P.E.I. and stay is a team approach. Art DeFehr was the guest speaker at Wednesday’s Greater Charlottetown Area Chamber of Commerce annual president’s luncheon. “Business needs to take a strong role and say we have to create the environment with jobs,’’ DeFehr said in an interview with The Guardian following his keynote presentation. “Government can manage the program but I think if they need to have that push behind them and support (from business).’’ DeFehr is the chief executive officer of Manitoba-based Palliser Furniture but he was also a catalyst behind Manitoba’s nominee immigration program which sparked a dramatic increase in the number of immigrants to the province since the late 1990s.
Montreal Gazette – A Choice Immigrants Should Not Have to Make
Whether arriving here as skilled workers, refugees, live-in caregivers or under any other program, families with young adult children will have to choose between living in Canada and living with those children. The recently proposed changes, which would lower from 21 to 18 the age limit for dependent children to be included in family units, are being framed in purely economic terms. Citizenship and Immigration Canada describes them as promoting an immigration system “focused on Canada’s economic and labour-force needs to attract immigrants who would contribute to the Canadian economy.” This implies that people who arrive in Canada at ages 19 to 21 do not contribute to our economy, or perhaps even end up as burdens. But Citizenship and Immigration Canada provides no evidence to support such a position. In six pages of notes explaining the background and rationale for the proposed changes, it provides only one actual statistic
Citizenship and Immigration Canada News Release – Canada and U.S. Committed to Faster, More Flexible Cross-Border Business
Beginning this year, annual consultations will be held jointly, including stakeholders from both countries. Upcoming consultations will take place by the end of September 2013. Two other notable examples of Action Plan commitments include enhanced guidance and training to Canada Border Services Agency and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers to achieve maximum efficiency at all ports of entry on business traveller issues, as well as the designation of documents, such as a work permit, onto NEXUS client profiles for expedited clearances. The progress report, which provides a status update on the six commitments in the Action Plan, is available on the Citizenship and Immigration Canada and DHS websites.
Winnipeg Free Press – Plenty of Tools for New Immigrants
On average, more than 15,000 immigrants now arrive in Manitoba each year. Most new Manitobans arrive through the Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program (PNP). The PNP helps skilled workers, entrepreneurs and their families settle in Manitoba as permanent residents. This program takes advantage of strong family and community connections to offer Manitoba newcomers an effective application and assessment process. […] Many other newcomers arrive under federal programs. Refugees may have fewer supports awaiting them, and bigger challenges.
The Province – Canada is Growing Dependent on Temporary Foreign Workers, Experts Fear
Currently, more than 330,000 workers live and work in Canada as part of the federal temporary foreign worker program — a number that has nearly tripled over the last 10 years, with the bulk of those job-seekers going west in search of work. But B.C. has struggled to keep pace with Alberta, Saskatchewan and the territories when it comes to attracting would-be employees. Fewer than five per cent of those working in B.C. moved there in the last five years, compared with 7.6 per cent in Alberta and double-digit percentages in Yukon, N.W.T. and Nunavut, the Statcan survey shows. The program was originally designed to attract skilled employees, agricultural workers and live-in caregivers in order to address temporary labour shortages. The emphasis shifted in 2002 to low-skilled workers, such as those in the food and beverage industry, construction and retail.
