The Media Roundup provides links to recent and archived articles, in both English and French, on immigration and diversity appearing in the national and local news. Some international content is also included. Articles are updated weekly.
Globe and Mail – Canada Urged to Condemn Egyptian Minister’s Remarks Saying Critics Will Be ‘Sliced Up’
Canadian-Egyptian groups are urging the federal government to condemn what they interpreted as a threat to outspoken expatriates made by an Egyptian cabinet minister in Toronto last weekend. Egypt’s Emigration and Expatriate Affairs Minister Nabila Makram made headlines after she told a community gathering in Toronto that anyone who criticized Egypt would be “sliced up,” according to a video from the event last Sunday. Ms. Makram’s comments were made in Arabic and met with laughter from the audience, which included an Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP and a federal Liberal MP.
Le Devoir – Maxime Bernier tape sur le clou de l’immigration
Frôlant à peine les deux pour cent dans les intentions de vote, Maxime Bernier a choisi mercredi soir de cogner à nouveau sur le clou de l’immigration. Le chef du Parti populaire du Canada (PPC) a livré un discours devant des partisans gonflés à bloc réunis à Mississauga, mercredi soir. Il s’est engagé à diminuer le nombre d’immigrants acceptés chaque année au Canada à 100 000, ou 150 000 tout au plus, s’il prend le pouvoir le 21 octobre, une perspective peu probable selon les sondages.
CTV News – Immigration Clampdown in the North Bay Area
On July 16 an officer from the North Bay Ontario Provincial Police was conducting radar patrol when the officer stopped a vehicle for stunt driving. The driver of the vehicle was unable to provide a valid driver’s license. As a result of the investigation, officers arrested three of the five vehicle occupants under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA). The driver was also charged with stunt driving.
National Post – Bernier Promises to Cut Immigration, Build Border Fences in Platform Speech
Maxime Bernier says that if he becomes prime minister, his government would slash immigration and refugee numbers, build a fence to block asylum seekers from walking across the border, and end a program that lets immigrants sponsor their families to join them. With his People’s Party of Canada barely touching two per cent in opinion polls, the Quebec MP chose to hit one of his key themes at an event in Mississauga, Ont., a western suburb of Toronto.
Windsor Star – Federal Agriculture Minister Talks Immigration Changes to Keep Farm Workers
Greenhouse and mushroom operations desperately need more workers, especially with Ontario’s greenhouse vegetable industry expecting to add 1,900 more acres and 7,900 jobs in the next 10 years, Canada’s agriculture minister was told in Leamington. Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau met with greenhouse and mushroom industry leaders locally to address the labour shortages and to talk about the federal government’s new agri-food immigration pilot program that offers foreign workers in those industries, as well as in meat processing, a chance to become permanent residents.
CBC News – Leamington Growers Support Pilot That Gives Temporary Foreign Workers Path to Residency
Marie-Claude Bibeau, federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, visited Leamington, Ont. Tuesday to talk about the three-year “Agri-Food Immigration Pilot.” Between visits to a greenhouse and a mushroom farm, she met with the Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Growers (OGVG) association. In attendance was Aaron Hamer, president of Highline Mushrooms in Leamington, who was supportive of the pilot. “Our business, since it was founded in 1961, has been supported and built with the help of an immigrant and refugee community,” he said. “There’s a permanent problem…[that not enough Canadians]…want to work in agriculture.”
