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.
Citizenship and Immigration Canada News Release – Minister Kenney Announces Citizenship Judge Reappointment
Citizenship Judge Sharon Robertson of Kitchener, Ont. has been reappointed, Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, announced today. First appointed in January 2010, Judge Robertson has been reappointed for a three‑year, part-time term. Prior to her appointment, Judge Robertson, who is of Japanese-Canadian ancestry, was an educator, having worked as an educational consultant with the Learning Ways and Integrated Centre for Optimal Learning, and as a principal and teacher in the Waterloo Region. She has also presented internationally on learning strategies in New York, Hong Kong and Nottingham, England.
Journal Pioneer – PEI Must Turn Toward Immigration for Skilled Workers: MacLauchlan
As the Island workforce continues to diminish, if the province wishes to maintain its current level of services, it has no choice but to immediately turn towards immigration to compensate for skilled worker shortages, suggests former UPEI president Wade MacLauchlan. During an information session about the LIENS immigrant integration program recently in Charlottetown, MacLauchlan and other speakers offered striking statistics and statements to the more than 40 participants at the event. They claimed the province is expecting the loss of 40 per cent of its workforce within the next 40 years, mostly because of declining birthrates, the increasing mortality rate of the aging population and the out-migration of Islanders.
Hamilton Spectator – [U.S.] Farmers Eager for Immigration Reform
Last week, a group of Republican and Democratic senators unveiled a blueprint that aims to grant legal status to an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the country. President Barack Obama also joined the fray, urging Congress to move legislation along quickly this year. Immigration reform has been a rallying cry among farm groups for years. Farmers have long reported chronic labour shortages that predate the recession. During the housing boom, for instance, contractors persuaded farm workers to work in construction. According to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, roughly half of all hired crop farm workers are in the country illegally. Of all workers, 7 of 10 are from Mexico, a country that has provided a steady supply of farm labourers since the middle of the last century.
La Presse – Immigration: des Iraniens poursuivent le ministre Kenney
Une vingtaine de demandeurs iraniens de résidence permanente au Canada ont déposé hier à Montréal une poursuite contre le ministre fédéral de l’Immigration, Jason Kenney, pour le forcer à rendre une décision dans leur dossier. Dans leurs procédures en mandamus déposées en Cour fédérale, ces demandeurs sélectionnés par le Québec dans les programmes des travailleurs qualifiés et des investisseurs allèguent que les délais de traitement, qui s’étendent sur plus de deux ans, sont déraisonnables.
Winnipeg Free Press – Suspect in Bulgarian Bombing Lived in Canada as a Child, Left at Age 12: Kenney
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney sparked fresh debate about Canada’s responsibilities to its dual citizens Wednesday as he shed a little more light on the shadowy suspect in a terrorist attack in Bulgaria last summer. Kenney said the Lebanese Canadian man arrived in Canada from Lebanon at age eight and lived in Vancouver with his mother before becoming a citizen, then returned to Lebanon when he was 12. Bulgarian authorities say that’s where they believe the man is now, along with the other suspect in the July attack, which killed five Israeli tourists, a Bulgarian bus driver and a third suspect — the bomber himself. […] While the Lebanese-Canadian individual may not have lived in Canada recently, Kenney said the controversy raises the question of what to do about citizens who go abroad to commit acts of terror. “Canadian citizenship is predicated on loyalty to this country, and I cannot think of a more obvious act of renouncing one’s sense of loyalty than going and committing acts of terror,” he said. He suggested the government ought to look at what other countries do and consider a mechanism for stripping Canadian citizenship from those involved in terrorist acts abroad.
Algérie Focus – Montréal, une ville privilégiée par les Algériens
Le Québec ! Reconnu par le monde comme une terre d’accueil pour tous, nombreuses sont les personnes à vouloir quitter leur pays natal pour y refaire leur vie. Les Algériens choisissent d’ailleurs majoritairement d’immigrer dans sa métropole, Montréal. La langue française, les repères familiaux, les opportunités d’emplois et la recherche d’une meilleure qualité de vie sont les principales raisons pour lesquelles les Algériens privilégient Montréal comme terre d’immigration. Selon le recensement de Statistiques Canada datant de 2006, la moitié des 25 150 personnes d’origine algérienne se sont installées à Montréal entre 2001 et 2006 et 29,6 % entre 1996 et 2000.
