Voies vers la prospérité: Canada

Employers will now be allowed to pay foreign temp workers 15 per cent less than the average wage. […]Business leaders, eager to recruit low-cost workers abroad, were delighted. Immigrant support groups, already fighting to protect temporary foreign workers from exploitation, were heartsick. And labour leaders warned that the wage cut would bring down the pay scale for all workers and make it harder for Canadians to compete for jobs in their own country.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/1168905–two-tiered-wage-system-announced-by-tories

Hundreds of thousands of Irish have fled the country since the economic collapse in 2008 that saw Ireland slip from Western Europe’s richest country to one of the poorest. But now Ireland’s government is taking unusual steps to reverse the trend, appealing to both their own citizens and companies worldwide to bring foreign business to Irish soil as a way to boost the economy and create jobs.

http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1169156–ireland-inching-back-from-the-brink-battles-to-reverse-the-emerald-migration-tide

The European Union warned Thursday Canada’s long-sought free trade deal could ultimately be blocked because of anger in three Eastern European countries over travel visas imposed on their citizens by Ottawa. […] Opposition is particularly fierce in the Czech Republic after Canada imposed its visa requirement in 2009 to curb an influx in the flow of Roma refugee claimants Ottawa views as bogus.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/visa-issues-linked-to-trade-149195445.html

This winter, Jason Kenney introduced Bill C-31, the Protecting Canada’s Immigration System Act, in Parliament. We have been watching the debate around this bill with some concern. It seems that Kenney believes the system needs protection from migrants. We, on the other hand, believe migrants, particularly refugees, need protection from his bill. We are a group of primary care physicians who support our patients, many of whom are refugees, to live proactively healthy lives. This approach is good medical practice, and yes, it even reduces health-care costs. We also recognize that people’s health status is dependent on their social and political realities. We therefore advocate for policies that support healthy living and condemn those that cause harm.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1169015–migrants-need-protection-from-bill-c-31

With more than 21 per cent of Ottawa-Gatineau residents born outside Canada, according to the 2006 Census, there are more immigrants in the capital than ever and the media landscape has expanded to serve them. Twenty years ago there were the city a handful of multicultural publications, such as the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin, the Canada-China News and The Spectrum (serving mainly the Caribbean community), and a few shows on cable channels or university stations. Now there are scores of newspapers, television and radio shows and websites catering to just about every cultural and language niche.

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Manitoba government workers and immigrant groups who received a controversial email from a senior bureaucrat suggesting they attend a debate may have felt undue pressure, but the email did not constitute a violation of opposition rights, legislature Speaker Daryl Reid ruled Thursday. […] Reid has rejected a complaint from the Opposition Progressive Conservatives stemming from a debate on immigration last week. Hundreds of immigrants and government-funded non-profit agency workers filled the public gallery to show support for a government motion that criticized federal changes to immigration programs.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/manitoba-government-accused-of-using-opposition-passes-to-stack-public-gallery–149106445.html