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- 时间: 2011-7-20 21:49刑期逾6月外国犯. 今秋起拟加速遣返
联邦移民部和公共安全部，将在今秋推出加速及简化外国罪犯上诉机制，日后如外国罪犯在本国犯事，刑期在6个月以上，也可加快遣返。
不过，很多法官判这些人士两年减一日刑期，避免他们被加速遣返。
故此，移民部和公共安全部会在今秋提出一套简化上诉机制的法规，如外国罪犯在本地犯事，刑期在6个月以上，他们会被加速遣返，但他们仍可以向难民局提出上诉。
他重申，加国有人道责任，不会把当事人遣返会受不人道对待的国家；但外国罪犯如果不是面对这些不人道风险，加国就要有法规去加速执行遣返。
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- 时间: 2011-7-20 21:582011-07-20
康尼（Jason Kenney）透露，移民部现正加快审批申请技术移民的积压个案
联邦保守党自2006年上台执政以来，联邦技术移民的申请，由64万份积压，需时7年清理，至今已减到32万份。他又首次引用部长指引，自今年7月1日起，全年限收1万份联邦技术移民名额，供属于29类特定技术劳工入表申请。
康尼说，移民部会用4年时间清理积压，直至一个可接受的数目，新的申请者可以得到及时服务。如在2015年入表，可以在同一年内有决定。他指出，移民部官员其实可以在数日内处理好一份申请，但档案一直积压在系统内，没法清理。在2008年国会引入修订《移民法》，可以让移民部长限制移民提交申请表的数目，就好像限制出售入场券一样。
周二中午，康尼出席温哥华贸易局（Vancouver Board of Trade）午餐会并发表演说时指出，通过增加各省的省提名移民（Provincial Nominee Program），在2011年可吸纳4万新移民。在2010年，省提名移民人数为36,428人，其中有提名企业家和提名技术劳工两种。
他又回应菲沙研究所（Fraser institute)周一提出取消家庭团聚类别，以经济需要甄别移民人数的建议。康尼认为，移民政策要求平衡，经济类别移民虽然来带来税收，有其重要性，但不会为此取消家庭团聚移民和履行人道责任的难民类别。
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- 时间: 2011-7-20 22:16移民部长确认可能会撤销1800名新入籍公民的资格
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1,800 new Canadians poised to lose citizenship: Kenney
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- 时间: 2011-7-21 08:27移民部又想干点啥？
某年某月的某一天，俺突然醒过来：原来加拿大和中国也是差不多，干啥事、到啥节日之前是会造舆论的
今天来看这桩新闻及其背后对海外劳工政策变化的走势
这是个很有营养的帖子
1它告诉你一个公司把它账面弄空以后你该如何办
2哪些机构你可以告、可以找
3你的理由应该说些啥
A group of tree planters who say they were treated like "animals" have yet to be paid the more than $230,000 in wages they're owed by a B.C. company, and their lawyer says the government should pay（猪狗不如的苦难日子，公司拖薪，要问政府讨）
Khaira Enterprises Ltd. owes back pay to 58 workers, many of whom are impoverished new arrivals from African countries, but the company has yet to pony up a cent of the money, according to lawyer Ros Salvador of the B.C. Public Interest Advocacy Centre.
"A lot of these people are living in absolute poverty -- many are homeless. It's quite a dire situation," she told ctvbc.ca.
Last month, the B.C. Employment Standards Tribunal upheld a February decision ordering Khaira to pay its former employees $236,800 in lost wages plus an administrative penalty of $3,500.
Some of the 25 workers Salvador represents are owed as much as $12,000 and have not received any employment insurance since the province shut down their work site near Golden last July.
"It's really huge amounts of money for people who are living in poverty," Salvador said.
Moka Balikama, a 35-year-old immigrant from the Congo, told ctvbc.ca that he is owed $4,000 and has subsisted on food provided by the BC Federation of Labour and other donors since the camp shut down.
"I'm living with a friend, but he told me that he'd help me only for a couple days," Balikama told ctvbc.ca.
He doesn't know where he'll go next, but says he's spent the last year searching for a job while he surfs couches.
"What I would ask is for justice to be done -- that is it," he said.
"There is a proverb in my country: Your property is your property. I know that was my money and I know it's going to come back to me."
The telephone number for Khaira Enterprises is out of service, and the company's lawyer Pir Indar Sahota is currently out of the country, according to his receptionist.
But Salvador says that the company's bank account is empty, and it's up to the government to pick up the slack.
She believes that the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations failed to properly investigate working conditions on past Khaira job sites before accepting the company's low-ball bid for the Golden job.
"Our view is that the Ministry of Forests should pay the full amount of money owing," Salvador said.
"The money they saved should be in the workers' pockets, not with the ministry."
The Employment Standards Branch is holding $105,000 in trust for the workers, but the Ministry of Labour told ctvbc.ca in an email that the money won't be released until the appeal process is complete, which could take several months.
"At that time, the ESB will also take all possible steps to ensure any remaining wages owing will be collected, which could include placing property liens, filing a determination in court or seizing assets," the ministry email reads.
Concerns about Khaira raised months before camp shut down
More than 30 workers were removed from the Golden site in July 2010 in response to what the labour ministry described as "substandard conditions," after authorities discovered they had no toilets and only creek water to drink.
The workers said they were fed rotten food and forced to sleep seven people to a single shipping container.
Khaira was operating a number of camps in B.C. based on two contracts in the summer of 2010, but the company was banned from government work for a year after conditions in the Golden camp were discovered.
Documents that Salvador obtained through an access to information request show that the government was aware of problems at another company's sites by the start of the tree-planting season in March 2010.
By the end of the month, inspections of the company's camp on Texada Island had revealed as many as 15 people were sleeping in a single trailer, with no heat and not enough washrooms.
An official with Vancouver Coastal Health said that the company was only providing workers with one meal per day, and employees were cleaning themselves with cups of water.
Documents provided to ctvbc.ca also reveal that the Western Silviculture Contractor's Association, a rival bidder, raised serious concerns with the ministry about Khaira's safety practices even earlier, in February 2010.
"I honestly can't imagine what the low bid [Khaira] was thinking," one email from the WSCA reads.
"You can't price the work or develop a safe plan if you don't have a sufficient experience with this type of work. In this case, it is pretty clear that the low bid missed something, or probably many things."
In an email to ctvbc.ca, the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations said that it took "immediate steps" to address workers' health and safety after conditions at the Golden camp were discovered.
Racism continues to sting
A year after his ordeal in Golden, Balikama says the worst part of the experience was how the workers were treated by their bosses.
"I have never been treated like an animal back home," he said. "What hurt most was when everybody -- Canadians -- said there's no racism in Canada, but that's just not true."
In January, the workers filed a human rights complaint against Khaira, but it has yet to be heard by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal.
Despite the racial taunts and unfair treatment he experienced, Balikama says he wants to stay in Canada.
"I would like to stay in B.C., because I would not like to go through more trouble," he said.
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- 时间: 2011-7-22 21:07事件要听两方面
老板的叫冤帖来了。老板说如果是他的错，砸锅卖铁把自家车房卖光光也会负责任。但非州工人的钟树活做的真不地道，还老爱闹罢工，他冤啊，没啥错
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不过老板同时采取的财产保护措施，把他名下的房产转给他的老婆，和老婆离婚。现在他没能力偿债了。且把自己弄的苦兮兮的。他住地下室，老婆和孩子住楼上。诉方律师辩说此转让无效
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- 时间: 2011-7-24 04:25这个种树的案子能引发许多思考
比如如何平衡政府投标案、低的竞标价和劳工保护的关系.也将引起未来拿政府合约的政策规定加强，如增加投标内容等
2011 2:34 PM PT
Khaira Enterprises isn't the only B.C. company accused of not paying tree planters, and some in the industry are blaming lowball bids for government contracts and lax enforcement of laws.
John Betts, executive director of the Western Silvicultural Contractors' Association, said he's heard numerous stories about tree-planting contractors shortchanging employees at sites across the province so far this season.
"We are hearing through the grapevine that there are workers who are not getting their pay every two weeks," he told ctvbc.ca.
"They have not seen any pay cheques and they've worked for months."
In fact, the Employment Standards Branch has already received eight formal complaints about working conditions in the silviculture industry this year -- two from groups and six from individuals.
Those complaints are a disturbing echo of worker allegations against Surrey-based Khaira Enterprises, which has been ordered to pay former employees $236,800 in unpaid wages.
Khaira has been banned from bidding on government contract work until September 2012, in response to slave-like conditions discovered at its work camps last year.
Betts says he wasn't surprised to learn that Khaira workers were living in crowded trailers and being fed rotten food; the WSCA warned BC Timber Sales months before the season began that Khaira's bids were too low to complete their contracts according to industry standards.
"Khaira's bid was substantially lower than experienced contractors," Betts said. "The bids were so outrageous."
A bid for a contract in the coastal region, for example, undercut competitors by close to 50 per cent, he says.
That contract included a Khaira work site on Texada Island, where as many as 15 people were sleeping in a single trailer, washing themselves with cups of water and eating just one meal per day.
Betts applauded the bravery of Khaira's former employees for taking on the company and refusing to suffer the treatment they were receiving.
"That these people actually had the grit to stand up to the abuse, considering how vulnerable they were, is commendable," he said.
But Khaira isn't the only company that dodges employment standards.
"There have been contractors that have operated on similar modus operandi," Betts said.
"They borrow money from workers and pay them back at the end of the season if everything works out."
He says similar companies also don't report where they are working to regulators and take advantage of vulnerable new immigrants who don't know how to get help in isolated areas.
Betts was apoplectic as he talked about the lack of oversight for lowballing contractors. He says that government officials and contractors in B.C. have worked hard to bring in tough regulations and camp standards for the industry.
"With all those efforts, if the agencies, the owners, the government authorities who put these contracts out don't enforce the laws, it's all for nothing," he said.
Betts says government agencies need to take special care to inspect and monitor contractors' work sites for employment and safety violations.
"If you're going to go with a low-bid contract ... you have an even greater responsibility to make sure that the contractor is not shirking."
Allegations against companies like Khaira are particularly troubling for Betts, who says honest contractors are struggling to recruit new employees. While surging demand for lumber in China promises to create a boom across B.C.'s forestry sector, the number of job applications to silviculture companies has been steadily dropping.
"This has been just horrible for our industry," Betts said. "We're not slave-drivers.... You can make a good living in tree-planting if you're willing to work hard."
Government implements new requirements for contractors
For his part, Khaira owner Khalid Bajwa denies that his company drastically underbids competitors for jobs.
"These bids are only a couple thousands dollars less. If these bids are too low, why are they awarding me contracts?" he told ctvbc.ca.
He says lowball bids are the only way he can compete.
"To run the business, we have to take some extra steps," he said.
Bajwa also denies mistreating his workers, and says he doesn't plan to change anything about his company's operations when the ban on Khaira is lifted. He plans to appeal the decision ordering him to pay his former employees in court.
The Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations says that bidders on government contracts must meet safety guidelines and generally provide evidence of successful completion of similar jobs before winning a contract.
"Whether it is a silviculture contract or other type, contracts are awarded to the lowest qualified and compliant bidder, not just the bidder with the lowest price," the ministry said in an email.
In response to conditions at the Khaira camps, an inter-agency government group developed new guidelines requiring inspections of sites within 48 hours of being set up and stricter requirements for contractors to report to health authorities, the Employment Standards Branch and WorkSafe BC.
"The increased sharing of information among ministries and other key agencies provide a clearer picture of a contract's progress and when to inspect contract operations, as well as allowing the necessary ministries and agencies to work together to address any problem contracts," the ministry said.
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- 时间: 2011-7-24 23:06加缅恢复来往 经济制裁照旧
加通社多伦多23日电 世界新闻网 北美华人社区新闻
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加拿大外长白锷德（John Baird）23日说，加拿大开始与缅甸恢复交往，包括互派大使至对方国家，但暂时不打算解除对缅甸的经济制裁。
正在印尼峇里参加东协地区安全论坛的白锷德解释说，恢复有限的外交往来主要局限于人权领域。在峇里与缅甸外长见面时候，他也提及这个问题，敦促缅甸政府释放被关押的政治犯。
加拿大指责缅甸政府完全不尊重人权，2007年对缅甸实施了经济制裁。缅甸去年举行了选举，军政府在统治缅甸半个世纪之后，正式把政权移交给民选政府。尽管民主领袖翁山苏姬（Aung San Suu Kyi）的软禁获得解除，在很多人看来，这仅属于作秀，军政府会继续把控缅甸政权。
白锷德还与澳洲和纽西兰的外长举行了会谈，三国外长重申三个国家相互之间长期的牢固关系，表示要继续合作以应对国际挑战。白锷德说：「我们讨论了缅甸和北韩的人权问题。我们也审视了人口走私和非法移民问题，表示要共同打击这些滥用移民系统的犯罪行为」。
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- 时间: 2011-7-28 17:44移民部在行动(1)---去年乘斯里兰卡难民船来的泰米尔猛虎解放组织成员被申令驱逐出境。这是被羁押的8个人中的一名
最近，另一艘载有近90名斯里兰卡泰米尔族人被当局截停在印尼
A Tamil refugee claimant who arrived off Canada's West Coast aboard the MV Sun Sea last year has been ordered deported over allegations he committed a war crime in his home country of Sri Lanka.
The migrant, who can't be identified, appeared before the Immigration and Refugee Board in April, and a written decision was issued this week.
The man admitted he was a member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or Tamil Tigers, which is considered a banned terrorist organization in Canada.
The written decision was heavily redacted and did not outline the specific allegations against the migrant, but he was accused of counselling others to commit a war crime.
It also wasn't clear whether the migrant offered any type of defence. Geoff Rempel, the refugee board adjudicator in the case, wrote that his decision was based in large part on the migrant's own account of what happened in interviews with border officials and in testimony at his immigration hearings
Rempel wrote that statements the migrant made during the alleged incident "amounted to him deliberately urging or inciting" others to commit a war crime.
"His statements, viewed objectively in context, actively prompted, advocated or encouraged the commission of the offence," wrote Rempel.
The migrant was among nearly 500 men, women and children arrived aboard the MV Sun Sea last year. All were ethnic Tamils from war-torn Sri Lanka, and all made refugee claims.
Most have been released, but eight men, including the migrant in this case, remain in detention.
The government has requested admissibility hearings for about 50 migrants to determine whether they are ineligible to remain in Canada, primarily because of alleged links to the Tamil Tigers or human smuggling.
So far, six have been deported, while the refugee board refused to deport nine of them. Several of those cases are now the subject of appeals in Federal Court.
Refugee claimants who've been ordered deported have several options.
They can file an appeal in Federal Court or ask for a pre-removal risk assessment, which determines whether they'll be at risk in their home country. They can also appeal directly to public safety minister if they can demonstrate "their presence in Canada would not be detrimental to the national interest."
Similar allegations links to the Tigers were levelled against a number of passengers who arrived a year earlier on a separate ship, the MV Ocean Lady.
The Ocean Lady arrived off Vancouver Island in October 2009 carrying 76 Tamil men, although none of the allegations against them were substantiated at the Immigration and Refugee Board.
Four men have been charged in connection with the Ocean Lady's arrival.
Vignarajah Thevarajah, 33, Francis Anthonimuthu Appulonappa, 33, Hamalraj Handasamy, 39, and Jeyachandran Kanagarajah, 32, were arrested in Toronto last month and charged with human smuggling.
They appeared at a bail hearing in Vancouver last week, and a decision on whether they'll be released until their trial is expected on Friday.
Earlier this month, news surfaced that another ship carrying almost 90 Sri Lankan Tamils was stopped by authorities in Indonesia,
It's unclear where that vessel was heading. Numerous news reports said the ship's final destination was New Zealand, while the Sydney Morning Herald reported there were charts on board indicating it was prepared to travel to Canada.
The federal Conservatives were quick to jump on the possibility of another migrant ship, with Immigration Minister Jason Kenney holding it up as proof that Canada needs tougher laws to combat human smuggling.
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- 时间: 2011-7-30 07:09移民部在行动(2)---四名海洋夫人号运输泰米尔人来加拿大的蛇头在多伦多候审后获准保释。保释金从100-5000
Four men charged with human smuggling in connection to a freighter that ferried dozens of Tamil migrants to Canada's West Coast will return to the Toronto area to await trial, after they were granted bail Friday.
A B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled that the men, all in their 30s, can be released under conditions with cash deposits.
Hamalraj Handasamy, 39, and Vignarajah Thevarajah, 33, must each supply a $5,000 cash bond, while Francis Anthonimuthu Appulonappa, 33, must provide $2,000. Jeyachandran Kanagarajah, 32, must put up $100.
RCMP arrested the group in Toronto last month, almost two years after the Ocean Lady arrived near Port Renfrew, off Vancouver Island. The foursome, along with 72 other migrants, were held in detention for up to three months before being freed.
After that most moved to the Toronto area, where the four accused currently live and work.
Sporting red jail-issue clothing, the men listened to the decision Friday delivered by a translator over headphones. Their case is proceeding through direct indictment and their next court appearance scheduled for Sept. 14.
Evidence presented at a bail hearing last Thursday and the judge's reasons for granting bail are under a routine publication ban.
Conditions set by the judge include a requirement the men continue to live at their current addresses in Toronto, they abide by conditions set by the Immigration and Refugee Board and they not possess or apply for a passport, visa or other travel documents.
They are prohibited from possessing any weapons, except in the case of one migrant who may use items like box cutters in his job at a warehouse.
The men must not have contact with each other or any of the other migrants who sailed aboard the Ocean Lady, but another exception was made for one man whose co-worker made the same journey.
Since their arrival, the federal government has touted the case of the Ocean Lady and a second ship of nearly 500 ethnic Tamils that sailed into B.C. waters last summer to push for more aggressive laws on human smuggling. The MV Sun Sea, which also carried women and children, arrived in August last year.
Ottawa alleges many of the migrants are linked to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a banned terrorist organization known as the Tamil Tigers.
A protracted civil war that divided Sri Lanka for decades ended two years ago with the Tigers' defeat. Since then, ships such as the Ocean Lady and the Sun Sea have made the arduous journey across the oceans to places like Canada, laden with Tamils who say they are fleeing persecution in their homeland.(逃离自己故国以免被迫害)
While everyone aboard the first ship was released, eight men from last summer's arrivals remain in detention. Six passengers have been deported because the Immigration and Refugee Board found they did have links to the terrorist group.
No such allegation have been substantiated for the first group, including for the four accused.
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资料帖之二------移民、难民、祖先文化的历史和有关法例、案件
