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Food security to retain newcomers
Wednesday, 11 February 2009 21:47
Proposal for Building Stronger Immigrant Communities Through Increased Food Security
The proposed project is a comprehensive investigation of the food security issues faced by recent refugees and immigrants residing in the city of St. John's and other rural centres across Newfoundland and Labrador. This project will foster the expansion of a healthy, integrated community through the development of a community-based program aimed at identifying workable strategies for enhancing food security and the health and well-being of refugees and immigrants.
Pilot Project on a Model for Immigration Retention Research in NL A Proposal to the Leslie Harris Centre, Memorial University
Project Aim The proposed pilot research project has the specific aim of creating a research model to inform public and community efforts to retain newcomers in this province. It will also produce limited findings by gathering directly and analyzing detailed views on immigrants' priorities and rationales for why they would settle in one place or another, particularly in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Immigrants helped build Canada. The railroad, bridges, tunnels and canals that connected our vast landscape, bringing the east and west coasts together, were constructed with the blood, sweat and tears of immigrants who came to Canada for a better future.
One could only imagine that in 2008, at 141 years old, Canada would be moving forward, toward a more inclusive and transparent immigration policy that welcomes the skills, innovation and contributions of immigrants, rather than a policy that reeks of the dark days of the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Continuous Passage Act, which were designed to keep immigrants out.
Earlier this year, Stephen Harper's Conservatives introduced changes to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and today they are only one small step away from passing them. These changes are deceptive, damaging, and irreversible.
A Newfoundland & Labrador Diversity and Immigration Umbrella Organization
The province of Newfoundland and Labrador has a minimal pool of human resources in the field of supporting the settlement and integration of newcomers because of the small size of its overall population and its relative inexperience with successfully carrying out such work.
In response, at a meeting in September 2007, the Coalition on Richer Diversity CORD has been formed as an umbrella organization which enriches the community by bringing people together and being resource. It reaches out to organizations and groups that work with immigrants to collaborate, to offer networking opportunities, and to help them grow into more aware and diversity-sensitive organizations.
A meaningful appeal can review and correct mistakes.
The
Canadian refugee system does not allow refugees to appeal a negative
decision from the Immigration and Refugee Board on the merits of the
claim. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the UN High
Commissioner for Refugees have identified the lack of an appeal on the
merits as a major flaw in the Canadian refugee system.
The
Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) includes the Refugee
Appeal Division (RAD). The RAD provides for the right to appeal a
refused refugee claim on the merits of the claim. When the IRPA was
introduced, it reduced the number of Immigration and Refugee Board
members hearing a refugee claim from two members to one. It balanced
this reduction in members with the creation of the Refugee Appeal
Division (RAD). The RAD has never been implemented. Life and death
decisions are now made by a single person, and the decisions cannot be
appealed.
Bill C-280 is a private members bill which
calls for the implementation of the Refugee Appeal Division. It will
receive second reading in the House of Commons early in December.
For more information and to send an email message to your Member of Parliament go to Amnesty International Canada "Take Action " website.
"In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934". -- Jack Steinberger
