Voies vers la prospérité: Canada

As of July 1, the number of people living in Canada sat at an estimated 38.9 million, an increase of 0.7 per cent, or 284,982 people, from April 1, 2022. The estimate, marking the highest pace of quarterly growth since 1957, represents an increase of more than 3,100 people per day. According to Statistics Canada, international migration accounted for 94.5 per cent of this growth, an increase of 269,305 people.

https://globalnews.ca/news/9162216/canada-population-growth-statistics-canada-sept-2022/

Quebec’s immigration and labour minister claims that newcomers to the province “go to Montreal, don’t work, and don’t speak French,” though he later tweeted he expressed “his thoughts badly.” The Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) candidate for Trois-Rivières and favourite to maintain the seat, Jean Boulet, made the comments when he was asked about his portfolio during a debate on Radio-Canada. He added the CAQ government has set up nine regional directors to help immigrants settle in Quebec, learn French, and assimilate into the province.

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/80-per-cent-of-immigrants-go-to-montreal-don-t-work-don-t-speak-french-caq-immigration-minister-1.6087601

Le ministre ontarien du Travail et de l’Immigration affirme que les seuils d’immigration actuels font l’objet d’un consensus. En Ontario, le même ministre s’occupe des questions du travail et de l’immigration, contrairement au Québec. Ce détail révèle la différence d’approche entre les deux provinces. Le consensus est tel en Ontario autour de l’immigration que cette question n’a presque pas été abordée comme enjeu électoral lors des élections provinciales du printemps dernier.

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1919317/monte-mcnaughton-ministre-ontario-travail-seuils-immigration-consensus

Le gouvernement Trudeau assure qu’il s’affaire toujours à renégocier l’Entente sur les tiers pays sûrs qui est au cœur des passages irréguliers à la frontière canado-américaine par le chemin Roxham. Les libéraux de Justin Trudeau ont été talonnés par les bloquistes et conservateurs sur cet enjeu, après que Radio-Canada eut révélé que, selon sa compilation, Ottawa a déboursé plus d’un demi-milliard $ en fonds publics pour rembourser des coûts défrayés par Québec ou pour payer des fournisseurs.

https://www.lesoleil.com/2022/09/27/chemin-roxham-les-negociations-avec-les-americains-se-poursuivent-assure-freeland-dff6c05dab30e184bb340c24490f61b0

The number of asylum-seekers entering Canada between formal border crossings has surged to the highest point since the government started tracking them in 2017, as dropped pandemic restrictions enable more travel and conflict and catastrophe displace people in many parts of the world. In the first eight months of 2022, Royal Canadian Mounted Police intercepted 23,358 asylum-seekers crossing into the country at unofficial entry points, 13% more than all of 2017, when an influx of border-crossers at Roxham Road, near the Quebec-New York border, made international headlines.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/27/canada-sees-new-high-in-asylum-seeker-crossings-from-us

Labour Minister Trevor Holder announced Tuesday that the province’s Immigration Navigator program for nurses, which links them to an adviser to help them through the process, will expand to other health-care positions and other professions as well. “What the navigator does is allows people to start rowing in the same direction, and that’s what was missing,” he said. Under the program, employment counsellors will incorporate overseas credentials into how they assess new arrivals as they develop an “action plan” to help them work in their professions.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/new-brunswick-accreditation-health-care-workers-1.6597580