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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.
Le Parti libéral du Québec (PLQ) exhorte le gouvernement caquiste à reculer sur son intention de renoncer à traiter 18 000 dossiers en souffrance de personnes qui cherchaient à immigrer au Québec. «Il n’a aucunement besoin de faire table rase», a plaidé en entrevue, dimanche, la députée libérale de Saint-Henri – Sainte-Anne Dominique Anglade.
The Quebec government is pushing a major overhaul to the province’s immigration system, but 18,000 skilled workers already in the process of applying for residency could be caught in limbo. “This was bad news for everyone who has been waiting for permanent residence,” said Francisco Morataya, an IT support specialist from Mexico who now lives in Magog. Under the new system laid out in Bill 9, Quebec’s backlog of applicants would be wiped out and the system would start again from scratch.
Le premier ministre François Legault proteste contre le refus d’Ottawa de permettre au Québec de fixer ses propres critères de sélection des résidents permanents. « Si M. Trudeau nous empêche d’arriver à cet objectif [de mieux répondre aux besoins de main-d’oeuvre et de créer des tests de connaissance du français et des valeurs québécoises], il va payer un prix politique », a averti M. Legault à quelque huit mois des prochaines élections fédérales.
The Coalition Avenir Québec government tabled legislation Thursday that would give the province’s immigration minister the power to ensure new arrivals are meeting, among other things, regional labour needs, as well as successful “linguistic, social or economic integration” in the province. Bill 9 also puts an emphasis on immigrants learning French and adopting the “democratic values and the Quebec values expressed by the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms.”
A West African man who spent seven years in a maximum security prison awaiting deportation can pursue only part of his civil lawsuit against the federal government, an Ontario court has ruled. The decision means that immigration adjudicators, who routinely kept Kashif Ali in custody based on evidence from Canada Border Service Agency, are off the hook. However, the federal government failed to persuade the court to strike the man’s claim against the border agency pre-trial for malicious prosecution, intentional infliction of harm, and breach of his rights.
Le ministre de l’Immigration, de la Diversité et de l’Inclusion, Simon Jolin-Barrette, a présenté le projet de loi no 9 qui établit le cadre légal d’une réforme majeure du système québécois d’immigration. Une telle réforme est nécessaire pour mettre fin au laxisme qui a caractérisé le règne libéral en matière de francisation, d’intégration et de pénurie de main-d’oeuvre. Mais soucieux de procéder rapidement, le gouvernement Legault annule cavalièrement les 18 000 dossiers en attente qui touchent plus de 45 000 personnes.
https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/editoriaux/547429/reforme-de-l-immigration-les-grands-moyens