Media Roundup

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 – Evaluation Shows Ministerial Instructions are Relevant and Necessary

According to a new evaluation, there is a continued need for Citizenship and Immigration Canada to manage the intake and processing of immigration applications in a timely and efficient manner, and ministerial instructions are a flexible and responsive tool to do so. “The evaluation confirms that it was right and necessary to take measures to manage the sheer volume of applications we receive,” said Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney. […]“Our government’s priority is jobs and economic growth. We are committed to the creation of a fast, nimble and flexible immigration system that can help our economy grow.”

 

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/releases/2012/2012-03-19.asp

CBC – Irish Flee Economic Woes for Canada

By the end of 2011, there were more than 5,200 temporary foreign workers from Ireland in Canada, up almost 1,000 from the year before. While the number pales besides statistics on workers from countries such as the Philippines or Mexico, Canada has become a premier destination for Irish workers fleeing a soured economy in their home country and an unemployment rate hovering around 15 per cent.

 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/03/17/irish-workers-in-canada.html

New York Times – It’s About Immigrants, Not Irishness

[…]For many Irish-Americans and Irish-Canadians, including me, St. Patrick’s Day isn’t really about Ireland. It’s about our ancestors leaving that country, often in bitter circumstances, and risking everything on a hazardous journey and being met with fierce hostility and scorn. […] Before the mass exodus from Ireland provoked by the great famine of the 1840s, new arrivals to North America were either settlers or slaves. The Catholic Gaelic Irish were the first cohort consistently labeled as “immigrants” in the modern, quasi-pejorative sense, and their experience established a stereotype, a template, applied ever since to whichever national or ethnic group happened to be the latest impoverished arrivals: French-Canadians, Chinese, Italians, Eastern Europeans, Hispanics.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/opinion/its-about-immigrants-not-irishnesss.html?_r=1&scp=12&sq=immigrant&st=cse

Montreal Gazette – Majority Supports Economic Policy

A majority of Canadians support the Conservative government’s management of the economy and skills-focused immigration reforms, according to a new poll that also highlights the economic and political divide between the West and Central Canada. […] A large majority agree with the Conservative government’s proposed changes to the immigration system that gives priority to immigrants who would bring the greatest economic benefit to the country.

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China Daily – China “Wealth Exodus” Underestimated

The scale of the exodus of wealth from China caused by investor immigration is much larger than previously estimated, according to China Daily’s interviews with emigration agents and experts. Last month, Legal Evening News, a Beijing Metropolis daily, said 10 billion yuan ($1.57 billion) has found its way abroad annually since 2009.

 

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2012-03/16/content_14845619.htm