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.
Relocate Magazine – Golden Ticket Visa for Significant $5 Million Investment in Australia
The Australian government is introducing a significant investor visa as a key component of the government’s business innovation and investment program, and requires visa holders to invest at least Australian Dollars (AUD) 5 million. The visa will commence from 24 November 2012, when applicants can submit an expression of interest through SkillSelect. […] Visa holders would have the flexibility to extend their initial four year visa by additional two year periods – for permanent residency; migrants must have $5 million and live in Australia 40 days a year for four years.
Winnipeg Free Press – Singapore’s First Strike in Nearly 3 Decades Highlights Strains from Foreign Worker Influx
Singapore responded to its first strike in nearly three decades with riot police and strident official criticism of the disgruntled Chinese immigrant workers, highlighting strains from an influx of foreign labour. […] The island of 5.2 million people now relies on hundreds of thousands of immigrants from countries such as Indonesia, Bangladesh and China who work as maids, construction workers and other occupations deemed unappealing by many locals. The influx has strained public services and sparked a backlash, particularly among low-income Singaporeans, by keeping wages down while the growing numbers of expatriate professionals working for global companies based in the city have pushed up housing and other costs.
Winnipeg Free Press – Marriage Fraud Law Helps and Hinders
Last month, Citizenship and Immigration Canada introduced new rules to combat marriage fraud. […] To combat marriage fraud, conditional permanent residency was created for foreign spouses who are in short-term relationships with Canadian spouses or who do not have children in common with their Canadian spouses. Under these “marriage probation” rules, a foreign spouse who does not live with the Canadian spouse for two years after immigrating to Canada can be deported. In order to protect abused spouses, the government correctly waived marriage probation if abused spouses can “clearly show” the abuse was the reason for the marriage breakdown. However, given the need to prove abuse, will abused spouses simply choose to endure their abuse for fear they will not be believed?
Globe and Mail – Ottawa Trying to Offload Some Refugee Resettlement Onto Community Groups
The federal government is seeking to offload some of its international promises to refugees onto the private sector. They’re asking community groups to sponsor 1,000 of the refugees the Canadian government has told the United Nations it will resettle over the next three years. But at the same time, they are restricting the groups’ ability to sponsor refugees themselves by placing caps on private applications. The decisions are raising concerns from not-for-profit groups that they are being forced to carry out the Immigration department’s objectives instead of their own.
Globe and Mail – Saskatchewan Premier Decides to Cover Health Care of Ailing Refuge
“This is the kind of country we are. You cover it,” Mr. Wall explained to reporters last week after his government opted to provide treatment to a man seeking refugee status from religious persecution in Pakistan. The man had been denied coverage by the federal government, which under new rules unveiled this spring, substantially trimmed drug, dental and vision coverage for refugee claimants. Mr. Wall’s comments came as part of a lengthening spat with the federal government over immigration policy, one that has seen Saskatchewan increasingly at odds with Ottawa.
Globe and Mail – Bid for Edmonton Family to Avoid Son’s Deportation to Somalia in Final Throes
The mother of an Edmonton man facing deportation to Somalia – a country he says he’s never been to – expects his bid for last-minute clemency has already failed. Khadro Mohamed’s son, 23-year-old Saeed Jama, was picked up from an Edmonton jail Sunday by federal immigration officials. Court had been told Mr. Jama, a convicted drug dealer who is effectively stateless, would be deported Monday, while Ms. Mohamed suspected he’d be deported Sunday. […] Canada advises against all travel to Somalia, but still deports people there. Only Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Iraq and Zimbabwe are deemed volatile enough to delay deportation.
