Voies vers la prospérité: Canada

Découragés par des conditions de travail difficiles dans des fermes du Québec, des travailleurs étrangers temporaires ont tenté, en grand nombre, de traverser la frontière vers les États-Unis, dans l’espoir d’y gagner mieux leur vie, même en tant que sans-papiers. Un phénomène encouragé par des recruteurs de plus en plus organisés… qui leur vendent souvent du rêve.

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/2021-11-23/travailleurs-etrangers-temporaires/le-reve-americain-clandestin.php

The head of the World Uyghur Congress is visiting Ottawa this week to ask the Canadian government to step up efforts to block imports of products made with forced labour in China and to create a refugee stream for Uyghur refugees fleeing Beijing’s repression. Dolkun Isa, president of the umbrella organization for exiled Uyghurs, will meet with Immigration Minister Sean Fraser and is hoping to meet with other decisionmakers during his stay in the nation’s capital, which will include a rally on Parliament Hill with MPs and senators from all major political parties.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-world-uyghur-congress-urges-canada-to-take-refugees-block-chinese/

Canada is nowhere near to meeting its goal of welcoming 81,000 refugees by the end of 2021, according to numbers obtained by CBC News. Figures provided by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) show the department was about halfway to its refugee intake target on Oct. 31. As of that date, Canada had welcomed more than 7,800 government-assisted refugees, well below the federal government’s target of 12,500.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/immigration-refugees-canada-1.6258067

A group of migrant farm workers has brought forward a racial discrimination case to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, with far-reaching implications for Canada’s temporary foreign worker program and immigration system. At a virtual hearing on Monday, the lawyer representing 54 farm workers – all either from Jamaica or Trinidad – argued his clients were racially profiled by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) during an investigation in October of 2013 in Bayham, Ont.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/11/23/immigration-system-under-the-lens-in-precedent-setting-racial-profiling-case.html

An unofficial border crossing in rural Quebec that was used by asylum seekers to enter Canada has reopened after being closed for much of the pandemic. The crossing at Roxham Road, on the Canada-U.S. border south of Montreal, is where thousands have crossed into the country to make a claim for refugee status. The federal government ordered the crossing shut in March 2020 as the pandemic closed the U.S.-Canada border, but as of Sunday the order has been lifted.

https://globalnews.ca/news/8396543/asylum-seekers-quebec-roxham-road-crossing-reopens/

A migrant farm worker who was among the dozens approached to give their DNA as police investigated a local sexual assault felt he couldn’t say no, he told a human rights tribunal hearing Monday. Logan Leon, a native of Jamaica, is the lead applicant in a class action lawsuit made by 54 migrant workers against the province, and he testified during Day One of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario hearing over the controversial 2013 DNA sweep by Ontario Provincial Police in rural Elgin County, southeast of London.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/humiliated-at-hearing-migrant-worker-recalls-opps-dna-sweep