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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.
As the U.S. bars asylum seekers from crossing the Mexican border starting Friday, questions are being raised about what Washington will do to guard its northern frontier with Canada. Unable to get to the U.S. via the southern border, will more desperate migrants fly to Canada and head south on foot through no man’s land, with help of smugglers who seize on human desperation?
Le premier ministre Justin Trudeau a évité de reconnaître mercredi l’impact négatif de la cible d’immigration fédérale sur le poids du Québec au sein de la fédération canadienne. Ottawa prévoit augmenter graduellement cette cible pour atteindre 500 000 immigrants en 2025. Il a indiqué que le gouvernement avait décidé d’augmenter « les cibles d’immigration dans les années à venir parce qu’on reconnaît qu’[il y a] une pénurie de main-d’œuvre, on reconnaît qu’on a besoin de croissance économique, qu’on a énormément d’emplois qui sont en train d’être créés à travers le pays et on a aussi mis l’emphase sur l’immigration francophone. »
Québec annoncera « bientôt » ses nouvelles exigences sur la connaissance du français pour les immigrants économiques, mais aussi pour les travailleurs temporaires, a déclaré mardi le premier ministre François Legault. « Les temporaires, il y en a beaucoup, et on doit se poser des questions sur ce qu’on fait pour protéger le français. Pas seulement pour les permanents, mais pour les temporaires », a déclaré le chef caquiste lors d’une mêlée de presse à l’Assemblée nationale.
Tsegay Msgun Fitwi had waited 15 years to reunite with the wife and three children that he left behind in Eritrea. They were to take a flight on May 16 to join him in Canada. On April 15, two days before the appointment in Khartoum, war broke out between the Sudanese government and a paramilitary group. Now, Fitwi’s family is among thousands of refugees without shelter or food near the border of South Sudan, which gained independence in 2011.
Provincial legislature members on Wednesday adopted a motion declaring Canada’s plan — to welcome 500,000 permanent immigrants a year by 2025 — incompatible with the protection of French in Quebec. The motion also states “it is up to Quebec alone to make its own choices” in immigration matters. Premier François Legault said Tuesday there is “no question” of Quebec accepting a huge rise in immigration because of the need to properly integrate, house and educate newcomers.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-immigration-canada-500-000-1.6838813
As the stalemate between crab harvesters and plant owners continues, hundreds of people tied to the industry, including dozens of temporary foreign workers, are stuck waiting for a resolution. Those temporary foreign workers include nearly 20 Filipino newcomers who arrived in Newfoundland and Labrador from Taiwan over the past month, recruited by Work Global Canada to work in Hickman’s Harbour crab processing plant.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/temporary-foreign-workers-crab-plants-1.6836238