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Plusieurs réfugiés doivent des milliers de dollars au gouvernement avant même d’avoir mis les pieds au pays à cause des coûts de leur voyage. Ottawa considère de nouvelles mesures pour faciliter le remboursement.
Les débats sur l’immigration ne manquent pas. La montée de l’extrême droite en Europe, la révocation du statut temporaire de milliers de réfugiés aux États-Unis par l’administration Trump et, au Québec […].
http://journalmetro.com/actualites/national/1259609/immigration-le-socle-de-notre-pays/
The provincial nominee businesses are set up after the would-be immigrants commit to a minimum investment of $150,000 and annual spending of at least $75,000. The two students interviewed say one dark side to the program is that some entrepreneurs may look for various methods of reducing or retaining their required expenses – such as telling young people in need of work to hand back some of their wages.
The RCMP announced Monday it will expunge any data on religious and cultural practices collected from Muslim refugee claimants who had crossed the U.S. border at a popular informal crossing in Quebec. The data had been obtained using an interview guide that included questions specifically targeting Muslims.
Thousands of Yemeni-Canadians have watched with terror as their country devolves into a humanitarian disaster. Nearly three years of war have caused tens of thousands to flee the country. Those who stay behind face relentless bombing from Saudi forces and a cholera epidemic preying on people weakened by hunger and the ravages of war. Yemenis applying for permanent residency in Canada face wait times of more than two years. Given this reality, the Yemeni-Canadian community has a simple question for the Canadian government: “Why the Syrians, but not us?”
It’s been more than two years since the crisis in Syria hit home for Canadians with a picture of a lifeless child named Aylan Kurdi on a beach. That photo spurred Ottawans into action, and refugee sponsorships jumped in the fall of 2015 and into 2016. Today that number has dropped significantly and organizations like Refugee 613 are trying to remind Ottawa that, while the Syria crisis is no longer top of mind, there’s still a need for refugee sponsorships of Syrians and people in need from other parts of the world.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/refugee-sponsorship-decline-feds-support-1.4411810