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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.
It was a day after his constituency office was found vandalized, with windows smashed and pink paint sprayed over, but that didn’t stop Immigration Minister Marc Miller from cracking jokes with the audience at a special citizenship ceremony in Toronto to mark Cirque du Soleil’s 40th anniversary.
Ce n’est plus le temps d’aller voir son patron pour démissionner en se disant qu’il sera facile et rapide de trouver mieux. La recherche d’un nouveau boulot est devenue « extrêmement difficile ». Il faut se faire à l’idée, le marché de l’emploi a beaucoup changé, en peu de temps. Depuis une quinzaine de mois, le taux de chômage grimpe constamment. Petit à petit, il est ainsi passé de 5 % à 6,4 %, au pays. Mais il ne faut pas croire que ce bond s’explique par des pertes massives d’emplois.
https://www.lapresse.ca/affaires/chroniques/2024-07-24/le-taux-de-chomage-des-immigrants-explose.php
The Bank of Canada is projecting that the federal government could fall short of its goal to shrink temporary residents’ share of Canada’s population over the next three years. Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced in March that Ottawa would attempt to reduce their share of the population from 6.2 per cent to five per cent by 2027.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-temporary-residents-bank-of-canada-1.7274212
As the scores required to qualify for the country’s points-based immigration programs get higher, many foreign workers have been trying to get additional points to boost their rankings. One way that can be done is if employers apply for a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA), a government document that gives workers at least 50 extra points and leads to a new work permit.
Quebec has called on Ottawa to provide more funds to other provinces so they can step up to take on some of the asylum seekers that have strained resources in Quebec and Ontario. Only Manitoba and Newfoundland said they’d be willing, provided Ottawa helped support the resettlement.
Even as federal Liberal government is pledging to cap the number of international study permits, its own data show Canada is approving permits at a pace faster than last year, which saw a record number of approvals. According to numbers curated online by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), Canada handed out 216,620 international study permits in the first five months of 2024.