Voies vers la prospérité: Canada

Le premier ministre Justin Trudeau souhaite que l’obtention d’un visa temporaire soit plus facile pour les demandeurs. Il veut que le système migratoire se préoccupe moins des risques qu’un visiteur reste au pays passé la date d’expiration de ce document. « Soyons honnêtes, le système est encore fondé sur la capacité du demandeur à prouver qu’il ne restera pas au pays s’il vient ici. Il leur est plus facile de convaincre les autorités d’obtenir un visa s’il a un bon emploi, une maison et un bon statut chez lui », a-t-il dit.
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/2023-02-11/justin-trudeau-veut-faciliter-l-obtention-d-un-visa-temporaire.php

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is investigating reports that some of its border patrol agents are driving Quebec-bound asylum seekers to the irregular border crossing on Roxham Road in exchange for money, picking up groups of people in nearby Plattsburgh, N.Y., while off duty. Sources have told Radio-Canada the practice “has been known for a few months,” adding that several agents are involved, but the exact number is unknown.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/us-border-agents-lifts-to-roxham-road-1.6743768

What caused Abdurahman Ibrahim Hassan’s death will remain a subject of debate. But inquest jurors said Friday they hope his story can lead to something: an end to the practice of housing immigration detainees in Ontario jails. After a day and a half of deliberation, the five jurors reviewing the death of Hassan, a refugee with a lengthy history of mental illness, delivered their verdict, making 53 recommendations — directed at federal and provincial authorities, police and correctional services, and Peterborough Regional Health Centre — to avoid similar deaths in the future.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2023/02/10/inquest-jury-into-refugees-death-recommends-against-holding-immigration-detainees-in-jails.html

The catastrophic 7.8 magnitude earthquake that slammed southwestern Asia is adding to the misery of Syrian refugees who fled to Turkiye to escape civil war. There are more than 3.5 million registered refugees in Turkiye, many of whom live along the border straddling Turkiye and Syria near the epicentre of Monday’s quake, which has decimated the region.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/syrian-canadians-call-on-federal-government-to-fast-track-immigration-applications-for-family-in-earthquake-zone-1.6268599

Internationally trained doctors are being sidelined in Canada while six million Canadians do not have a family doctor. The project emerged from Trained To Save Lives, a social media campaign about the role of internationally educated health-care professionals in British Columbia’s COVID-19 response. We conducted interviews with 11 internationally trained doctors in B.C. While this study was conducted in B.C., the findings highlight licensing barriers for internationally trained doctors across Canada.

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analysis/2023/02/10/canada-discourages-internationally-trained-doctors

L’entente Canada-Manitoba relative aux services en français se termine cette année, et des consultations sont en cours pour la renouveler. Bien que la province ait davantage d’obligations linguistiques, le montant de ce financement n’a pas changé depuis 2009. L’Entente Canada–Manitoba sur les services en français soutient l’offre de services provinciaux et municipaux dans des secteurs tels que l’immigration, la santé, l’éducation de la petite enfance, la culture et le tourisme. Les initiatives liées à l’éducation scolaire et postsecondaire sont financées dans le cadre d’une autre entente.

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1955121/financement-canada-manitoba-services-francais