Voies vers la prospérité: Canada

Le gouvernement Trudeau croit qu’il faut augmenter l’immigration francophone pour assurer la pérennité de la langue française au pays. À cette fin, le ministère de l’Immigration devra respecter des cibles précises pour attirer des immigrants francophones afin de maintenir le poids démographique de la population francophone minoritaire. D’où l’idée d’inscrire noir sur blanc, dans la loi, l’obligation du ministère de l’Immigration de recruter des immigrants francophones chaque année. Et pour la toute première fois, un sous-ministre au sein de la fonction publique fédérale se verra confier cette mission.

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/politique/2021-02-26/entrevue-editoriale-avec-melanie-joly/l-immigration-francophone-fondamentale-pour-l-avenir-du-francais-au-pays.php

A Saskatoon family is pleading for a grandmother to be allowed to remain in Canada after she was unsuccessful in the lottery family sponsorship program and is now being told she has to leave. Emily Tang said she came to Canada from China as a young girl in elementary school. Her mother worked long hours at a hotel, which meant Tang was dropped off at school around six in the morning and had to hide until teachers started arriving. It was what the family had to do until Tang’s grandmother, Fenglan Ge, was approved on a six-month visa.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/saskatoon-family-grandmother-canada-1.5926346

Yusuf Shire, the president of the New Brunswick African Association, is used to getting phone calls late at night or in the middle of a work day that require him to drop what he’s doing and, since he has no car, pay for a cab or ask a friend for a ride to where he’s needed. And Shire does so willingly every time. When he left a Kenyan refugee camp for Canada in 2007, he carried a small bag of possessions and a big lesson. It came from his grandparents when he was growing up in the camp: helping others always comes first.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/yusuf-shire-new-brunswick-african-association-1.5925741

In early September in 2015, a photo of a young boy lying lifeless on a beach in the Mediterranean captured the world’s attention. The picture showed two-year-old Alan Kurdi lying face down in the sand. On this episode of Whatever Happened To…?, Erica Vella speaks with Tima about the Kurdi family’s devastating journey and finds out how the photo of Alan mobilized Canada to take action and help thousands of Syrians fleeing persecution.

https://globalnews.ca/news/7643915/whatever-happened-to-alan-kurdi-and-the-syrian-refugee-crisis/

A report by RBC Economics puts the number at just 184,000 new permanent residents entering Canada in 2020, half of what was targeted at the beginning of the year. And for those waiting on their permanent residency applications to be approved, or those who sought asylum or refugee status in Canada, the pandemic has put them in a frustrating limbo with Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/heartbreak-confusion-frustration-applications-for-permanent-residency-are-stuck-in-pandemic-limbo-1.5323859

There is no indication the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship consulted federal security agencies before approving an arrangement for a company owned by the Chinese police to manage Canada’s visa application centre in Beijing, MPs heard on Thursday. Public Safety Minister Bill Blair and heads of Canadian security agencies, including Shelly Bruce of the Communications Security Establishment, were asked at a Parliamentary committee meeting on Thursday whether their guidance was sought on the contract.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-no-indication-federal-security-agencies-were-consulted-before-beijing/