Voies vers la prospérité: Canada

According to a November survey published in the centre-right German newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of the key factors underlying growing discontent among ordinary Germans towards their country’s immigration and multiculturalism policies stems from widespread negative views concerning Islam and Muslim immigration. […] Such views are not unique. Anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim attitudes are widespread in European countries, particularly France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, even traditionally tolerant Denmark. In some cases, such animosity is linked to economic difficulties with escalating unemployment.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/op-ed/Sterling+styles+welcoming+immigrants/7734807/story.html

Ordered to leave the country for a year for briefly working off campus illegally, Ordu, 20, and Amadi are instead evading authorities. They have sought shelter inside different Regina churches for six months. They maintain they were not aware they needed a special permit to work off campus. Ordu’s admissibility hearing went before the Immigration and Refugee Board on Nov. 21, 2011. According to hearing documents, Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) enforcement officer Chris Case and Ordu presented different versions of an interview that took place July 11, 2011 – shortly after CBSA officers received a tip Ordu had been working illegally.

http://www.leaderpost.com/students+facing+deportation+wish+leniency+this+Christmas/7729696/story.html

Statistics Canada figures for the first 11 months of this year show that Quebec has by far the country’s highest unemployment rate for immigrants, at 11.5 per cent. It also has a higher unemployment gap between immigrants and non-immigrants than any other province: Anyone born outside Canada to arrive in the past decade is more than twice as likely to be out of a job, and the gap increases sharply for those who arrived in the past five years. […] By last year, more than 62,000 newcomers who arrived between 2000 and 2009 had gone. Among entrepreneurs and other business people, the attrition rate was almost 60 per cent.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/new-canadians-love-quebec-but-theyre-leaving-it/article6673482/

Citizenship and Immigration Canada has announced changes that will focus the federal immigration system on attracting skilled tradespeople as well as highly skilled immigrants with Canadian work experience. These changes are long overdue and provide Manitoba an opportunity to focus its immigration program to fill other gaps in the workforce.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/changes-to-rules-on-trades-overdue-184225771.html

Federal Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Wednesday he will call for an investigation by the Canada Border Services Agency into allegations that a B.C. businessman charged thousands of dollars to Chinese nationals who wanted to work at one of his two fast-food franchises. Kenney also urged the B.C. government to toughen provincial legislation, which provides for a maximum fine of just $500 under the Employment Standards Act for employers who illegally charge fees in exchange for jobs. Opposition critics, meanwhile, called on the federal and B.C. governments to launch a broader investigation into alleged abuses of Ottawa’s controversial Temporary Foreign Workers program.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Kenney+calls+federal+investigation+into+recruitment+fees+temporary+foreign+workers/7725927/story.html

The new judging criteria for the federal skilled worker program will award more points to younger immigrants and changes the way the government looks at work experience and education.

The way points are allocated for language ability will also change. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney unveiled the new system on Wednesday after first introducing a plan for it in the government’s March budget.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/youth-and-language-proficiency-new-must-haves-for-would-be-immigrants-184067071.html