Media Roundup

La revue de presse fournit des liens aux articles récents et archivés, à la fois en anglais et en français, sur l’immigration et la diversité lesquels ont été publiés dans les média locaux et nationaux. Il y a également des articles internationaux. Cette section est mise à jour hebdomadairement.


Global News — Temporary foreign worker program should be ‘reformed significantly or cancelled’: Eby

British Columbia Premier David Eby is calling on the federal government to make major changes to the temporary foreign worker (TFW) program — or to scrap it outright. Eby made the comments Thursday, at his first public appearance after a month break over the summer. Eby also cited allegations of the fraudulent sale of labour market impact assessments, documents that show a Canadian worker isn’t available for the job they’re offering when hiring a foreign worker. Any reform of the program must ensure that farmers and other sectors that legitimately need temporary labour are accommodated, Eby said.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11393208/eby-temporary-foreign-worker/

CBC News — International student visas for Canada plummet

Permits for students from abroad to study in Canada plummeted in the first half of this year, with nearly 90,000 fewer issued than a year earlier. This comes after the federal government introduced a cap on international student visas in early 2024. Between January and June 2024, Canada issued 125,034 international study permits. Between January and June of this year, that fell to 36,417, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) told CBC News on Wednesday. IRCC provided figures for the first halves of 2024 and 2025. The number of applications for international student visas has also dropped. In the first half of 2025, the department received 302,795 applications, down from 398,675 in the first half of 2024 and 575,535 in the first half of 2023.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/intl-student-permits-drop-1.7624350

The Globe and Mail — Poilievre calls for federal government to end temporary foreign worker program

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the federal government to shut down the Temporary Foreign Worker program and immediately end the issuance of new permits, linking it to the rising youth unemployment rate, and saying it is flooding the job market with cheap labour. The Conservatives are proposing the creation of a separate, standalone program for “legitimately difficult-to-fill agricultural labour,” and to wind down the program gradually in regions with low unemployment rates.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-pierre-poilievre-temporary-foreign-worker-program/

Le Devoir — Pierre Poilievre réclame la mort du Programme des travailleurs étrangers temporaires

Le chef conservateur Pierre Poilievre, qui continue de tenir les travailleurs temporaires responsables du chômage élevé chez les jeunes, réclame maintenant la mort du Programme des travailleurs étrangers temporaires (PTET). « Il est temps que les emplois canadiens reviennent aux travailleurs canadiens. Les conservateurs demandent au gouvernement libéral d’abolir définitivement le Programme des travailleurs étrangers temporaires et de cesser immédiatement de délivrer de nouveaux permis », a-t-il déclaré mercredi matin, dans un point de presse à Mississauga, en Ontario.

https://www.ledevoir.com/politique/canada/913953/pierre-poilievre-reclame-fin-programme-travailleurs-etrangers-temporaires

Radio-Canada — Quebec universities see sharp drop in international student applications

Concordia, Université de Montréal report 37 per cent decrease in applications for fall semester. Quebec universities are sounding the alarm over plummeting admission requests by international students wanting to study in the province. The institutions say the drop is hurting their bottom line but has broader implications as well. The Bureau de coopération interuniversitaire (BCI), which represents the province’s universities, said applications from international students dropped by 46 per cent between April 2024 and April 2025.

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/2189693/quebec-universities-see-sharp-drop-in-international-student-applications

Le Devoir — Les autorités de l’immigration accusées de discrimination par la communauté congolaise

Des représentants de la communauté congolaise d’ici accusent les autorités canadiennes de l’immigration de procéder à des expulsions non fondées qui découlent d’informations erronées. Se portant à la défense de ressortissants de cette communauté, des avocats d’ici sont allés jusqu’à taxer le gouvernement canadien de discrimination dans sa volonté de les expulser sous prétexte qu’ils ont des liens avec des mouvements subversifs qui auraient voulu renverser l’ancien président de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC), Joseph Kabila.

https://www.ledevoir.com/societe/913800/autorites-immigration-accusees-discrimination-communaute-congolaise