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.
Montreal Gazette – Appeals Court Asked to Review Immigration Laws in 2 US States After Supreme Court Decision
Lawsuits challenging Alabama’s and Georgia’s laws targeting illegal immigration are back before a federal appeals court as attorneys from both sides are asking judges to reconsider the crackdowns in light of a recent Supreme Court ruling. The state of Georgia filed papers by Friday’s deadline with the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that its law should be upheld based on the Supreme Court ruling on a similar law enacted by Arizona.
Winnipeg Free Press – Conservatives Halt Visas for Employers Linked to Sex Trade
The federal government is no longer allowing employers linked to the sex trade to hire strippers, escorts and massage-parlour workers from outside the country. […] Also, as of July 14, Citizenship and Immigration Canada will no longer process new work permit applications from temporary foreign workers intending to work for sex-trade-related businesses.
Globe and Mail – Failed Asylum Seekers to be Paid Up to $2,000 to Leave Canada Voluntarily
Adopting an approach used in Europe to return thousands of asylum seekers, the federal government has begun a pilot project in the greater Toronto area offering up to $2,000 to failed refugee claimants who agree to leave voluntarily. […] The leave-early-get-more approach was criticized by an immigration lawyer as undercutting the newcomers’ right to appeal their rejection by the Immigration and Refugee Board. Under the program that was started this week, refugee claimants qualify for the full $2,000 only if they don’t seek leave to appeal their IRB rejection to the Federal Court.
Calgary Herald – As Europe’s Economic Struggles Continue, Borders are Quietly Tightening
British Prime Minister David Cameron said this week what some other European leaders must be thinking. He threatened to tear up a key freedom of movement pact that the United Kingdom made years ago with the EU. Contingencies might be required, he said, involving emergency powers to severely restrict the ability of Greeks to travel to Britain and to work there. […] At the other end of the spectrum, Portugal’s Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, whose government may be in as dire straits as Greece, astonished his unemployed countrymen recently by actually urging them to “leave their comfort zone” and emigrate. According to the Financial Times, which carried his remarks, as many as 150,000 Portuguese have already reached the same conclusion and emigrated last year.
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Globe and Mail – There are Better Ways to Help Foreign Strippers Than Kicking Them Out of the Country
The government has already cut back on the number of visas it issues to exotic dancers from abroad. But in changes to federal rules announced this week by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and Human Resources Minister Diane Finley, strip clubs – along with escort services and massage parlours – will no longer be allowed to hire temporary foreign workers and existing visas will no longer be renewed. Strip clubs are legal businesses in Canada. […]Rather than leaving the country when their visas are not renewed, some of the women may go underground, where they will be all the more susceptible to the sexual exploitation the government says it fears.
Toronto Star – Activist Group Calls for Greater Migrant Worker Protections
Migrant workers in Canada are not only turned back when jobs don’t materialize, they leave empty-handed even though in many cases they have been paying into Employment Insurance, Justicia for Migrant Workers says. […]Human Resources and Skills Development Canada said temporary foreign workers who arrive in Canada to find there’s no work have a variety of options. “They can return home, and the employers of low-skilled workers are required to pay the cost of the return airfare,” the department stated in an email sent to the Star.
