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.


La Presse — Le milieu économique et les villes font pression sur Québec et Ottawa

Des organisations comme la Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec (FCCQ), le Conseil du patronat du Québec et la Fédération canadienne des entreprises indépendantes s’allient à l’Union des municipalités du Québec et à la Fédération québécoise des municipalités pour faire pression auprès de Québec et Ottawa dans le dossier de l’immigration temporaire. Plus d’une vingtaine de groupes, représentants des centaines de milliers d’entreprises et municipalités, signent mardi une lettre transmise à la ministre fédérale de l’Emploi, Patty Hajdu et au ministre provincial de l’Immigration, Jean-François Roberge, pour que les deux paliers de gouvernement retirent les restrictions imposées au Programme de travailleurs étrangers temporaires (PTET).

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/2025-06-10/travailleurs-etrangers/le-milieu-economique-et-les-villes-font-pression-sur-quebec-et-ottawa.php

The Globe and Mail — Refugees in limbo, with Ottawa silent on immigration jobs program due to expire within days

In the Ontario village of Schomberg, the local stone masonry shop is known for holding the Guinness world record for the tallest freestanding inukshuk sculpture. Since last year, the company, which crafts marble columns and limestone windowsills out of stone from its quarries, has cultivated another cause for renown: rescuing Syrian refugees. Peter Melo, general manager of Allstone Quarry Products, has helped two refugees establish new lives in Canada with their families, and he is in the process of hiring one more. But whether his latest Syrian employee ever arrives may depend on whether the federal government’s Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot, a program that matches qualified displaced people with job vacancies in Canada, expires this week as scheduled, or is extended by Ottawa as promised by the previous Liberal government.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-refugees-in-limbo-as-ottawa-silent-on-immigration-jobs-program-due-to/

The Gazette — ‘Complicit with a totalitarian regime’: Canada’s border rules are landing asylum seekers in ICE detention

Canadian authorities have returned more than 1,600 asylum seekers to the United States in 2025 without hearing their case for refugee protection, according to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). Many have landed in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. The removals are a product of the longstanding Safe Third Country Agreement, which requires anyone seeking refugee protection in Canada or the U.S. to claim asylum in the first of the two countries they reach.

https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/article975299.html#storylink=cpy

La Voix de l’Est — Ces travailleurs étrangers qui nous nourrissent

L’agriculture est souvent une histoire de famille. Les fermes passent de génération en génération. Mais cette transmission familiale ne touche pas que les propriétaires. Elle concerne aussi les nombreux travailleurs venus de l’étranger.À Saint-Jean-de-l’Île-d’Orléans, la Ferme Onésime Pouliot cultive fraises et framboises sur plus de 200 hectares. L’entreprise embauche plus de 300 travailleurs étrangers, majoritairement saisonniers. Ils arrivent en avril et repartent à la fin de l’automne. Certains sont des travailleurs temporaires, avec l’espoir de décrocher leur résidence permanente.

https://www.lavoixdelest.ca/affaires/2025/06/07/ces-travailleurs-etrangers-qui-nous-nourrissent-7SKSPUYLQJF65OQF6OROVAA6BY/

Radio-Canada — Experts warn of Bill C-2 as ’anti-refugee’ and ’anti-immigrant’ giving Canada ’unchecked powers’ like the U.S.

Bill C-2 gives power to pause, cancel and suspend immigration documents. Many experts and community groups working with newcomers in Canada agree. They are calling the Liberal government’s sweeping new legislation, Bill C-2 or the Strong Borders Act, anti-immigrant and anti-refugee, and say they  hoping the legislation does not become law. The legislation proposes changes to a number of laws including the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.  Specifically it allows officials to cancel, suspend or change immigration documents immediately, pause the acceptance of new applications and cancel applications already in process if deemed in the public interest.

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/2170244/experts-warn-of-bill-c-2-as-anti-refugee-and-anti-immigrant-giving-canada-unchecked-powers-like-the-u-s

CTV News — Liberals introduce ‘citizenship by descent’ legislation

New legislation introduced today would extend citizenship by descent rules beyond the first generation. Bill C-3, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act, would automatically give citizenship to anyone who would be a citizen today if not for the first-generation limit. Under the current rules, a Canadian citizen born outside Canada cannot pass their citizenship to their kid if that child was also born outside the country.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/liberals-introduce-citizenship-by-descent-legislation/