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 Soleil – Les universités coincées par une loi de l’immigration
L’article de loi visant à mettre fin à la pratique d’escrocs qui réclament des sommes astronomiques à des candidats à l’immigration en échange de la promesse de faciliter leur venue au Canada pourrait freiner le recrutement d’étudiants internationaux des établissements d’enseignement supérieur du pays, dont celui de l’Université Laval (UL). Les universités et les collèges canadiens ont reçu le mois dernier une lettre de Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada (CIC) leur indiquant que le personnel qui conseille les étudiants et les professeurs internationaux sur les procédures à suivre pour demeurer légalement au pays dans le cadre scolaire devaient cesser de le faire.
Business Week – Western Provinces Seek Immigration Cap End, Manitoba Says
Canada’s western provinces, from British Columbia to Nunavut, will call on the government to lift a cap on immigration that is compounding shortages of skilled labor, Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger said. Manitoba can’t reach its goal of bringing 75,000 immigrants to the province in the next eight years because federal restrictions limit the number of newcomers who can enter under the Provincial Nominee Program, Selinger said. Western and territorial leaders set to meet in Winnipeg on June 17 want Ottawa to lift the caps so that companies can fill job vacancies as baby boomers retire, he said.
An increasing number of landed immigrants are struggling to complete the final stage before becoming citizens: passing the citizenship exam. The failure rates have increased significantly since Citizenship and Immigration Canada introduced new and harder tests last year on March 28 and July 23. […] According to statistics obtained through the Access to Information Act and released to CBC News Network’s Power & Politics, the hardest hit are individuals in the “family class” who, according to the department’s analysis, typically have lower levels of education.
Workpermit.com – Quebec Immigrant Investor Program May Reopen on August 1st
The Quebec Immigrant Investor Program (QIIP) is tentatively scheduled to reopen on 1st August 2013. If it does, then Quebec will accept ‘a limited number of applications’ before closing the program again […] The QIIP was last reopened on 21st March 2012. At that time, the Quebecois government announced that it would accept 2700 applications before closing the program again. These 2,700 applications were received within one month. So if past experience is anything to go by, investors will need to apply quickly in order to beat the rush. To qualify for the QIIP, applicants must have net assets of at least CAN$1,600,000
Le Soleil – Les millionnaires sont très éduqués et souvent immigrants
Ceux qui doutaient encore du fait que l’éducation est un élément-clé de l’enrichissement feront bien de prendre note que 92 % des millionnaires québécois détiennent un diplôme d’études supérieures. Bien que moins élevée à l’échelle nationale, cette proportion n’en demeure pas moins à 80 % de millionnaires canadiens détenant un diplôme d’études supérieures. Une enquête réalisée par une filiale du groupe BMO dresse un portrait plutôt étonnant de ceux que l’on désigne comme des Québécois ou des Canadiens «à valeur nette élevée». Outre le niveau élevé de scolarisation, on y apprend que les deux tiers des millionnaires québécois (64 %) et canadiens (67 %) ont bâti eux-mêmes leur fortune; celle-ci ne provient donc pas d’un héritage. Par ailleurs, près de la moitié d’entre eux – 48 % au Canada et 44 % au Québec – sont des immigrants ou ont au moins un parent né en dehors du Canada
New York Times – Immigration Cost to Countries is Overstated, Study Finds
Public debate about immigration is being distorted by unfounded concerns over the financial burden that new arrivals put on governments, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said in a report on Thursday. […] “Immigrants contribute more in tax and social contributions than they get in individual benefits,” said Jean-Christophe Dumont, the O.E.C.D. official who headed the study. “That’s why the net fiscal impact is mostly positive,” even if small. “The public perception is that they take much more out than they put in,” he said, “but that’s just not the case.”
