Presentation about Canada

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Finally, it’s also easy to enter in Canada for refugees. *The article of the Guardian takes the example of a Syrian family and shows how easy it was for them to immigrate in Canada. The Syrian refugees’ families can have “sponsors” that is to say Canadian people which accept to sponsor them and take care of them for one year. Sponsors help them to become integrated in Canada. Fears about migrants in Canada are totally not like the other countries and political parties do not have anti-immigration platforms. On the contrary, “the government promises to welcome 25000 Syrians this year” according to the article.

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*Even if Canada is a real open country, it’s not so easy to immigrate to Canada according to the Huffington Post. When the article has been written Trump wasn’t elected but a lot of people was already talking about immigrating to Canada if Trump won the election.

As we all know Trump is talking about building a wall between the USA and Mexico but for the Huffington Post Canada doesn't need to build a wall to keep out those Americans willing to escape from Trump because while Canada may have an admirable universal health care system, Canada's immigration system is broken.

Many Americans -- including celebrities like Chelsea Handler, Bryan Cranston, Barbara Streisand and Lena Dunham -- who have expressed their panic and outrage with this U.S. election and who have threatened to move to the Great White North should have applied to Canada years ago. Because according to the CIC's own website, it now takes more than 26 months for Canada to process a visa for a foreign spouse of a Canadian citizen who is already living inside Canada.

. John McCool the author of the article said “I have been waiting 27 months, and yet still have not received my residency visa. Meanwhile, I don't have access to Canada's coveted health-care system. I can't legally work or study in the country. I can't even open a bank account. So it shows that in real life it’s more difficult than we think to immigrate to Canada even if it’s an obvious option for a lot of Americans”. Indeed, Canada has immigration rules as any country and does not accept anyone willing to live in Canada. There exists a system of points given to each immigrant according to their age, skills and status. Depending on the number of points you get you can or cannot be eligible for express entry or citizenship in Canada. As any country, Canada thus sorts immigrants out.

*The refugee crisis is an other aspect of the myth on Canadian’s immigration. With the refugee ’s crisis, a lot of people think that Canada and Canadians people have welcomed refugees with opened arms because medias are telling a lot of stories about refugees in Canada that warm your heart. But for MARGARET WENTE in The Globe and Mail the reality is a bit darker, for her it’s too soon for self-congratulation. Across Canada, refugees have been turning to food banks because they can’t make ends meet. Toronto’s Daily Bread Food Bank found that Syrian families have less than $400 a month left after they pay the rent. Canada has a robust network of social-service agencies but none were prepared for the deluge, and they didn’t get more funding to deal with it.

Refugees can’t find jobs until they learn English (or French in Quebec), but some language schools have run out of money to meet the demand. Moreover few Syrian refugees are highly educated. (One survey of refugees in Hamilton found that two-thirds of those aged 15 and older had a high-school education or less.) And in some parts of Canada, especially Alberta, the job market is terrible. The journalist writess « It would be foolish to open the doors even wider (as some people think we should) while so many newcomers are struggling to find purchase. It would also be smart of us to remember that integration takes more than a generation. » Thus, arrival and integration in Canada are not as easy as we might think for immigrants and refugees.

IV.

So, as we just demonstrated it, immigrating to Canada is not the easy process we usually think about. So there is an interesting question to answer: why can’t we help thinking moving to Canada is easy?

In fact, this is probably first because we have a really bad vision about immigration in other western countries. *As the newspaper The Economist puts it in his article “Canada’s example to the world”, Canada is the country who will uphold the torch of openness in the West. Indeed, in a context of political and economic crisis in Europe and the United States, Canada seems to be a safe haven opened to the world. While the US new president Donald Trump wants to build a wall on Mexico’s border, while Britain, worried about immigrants and globalisation, has voted to march out of the European Union and while Marine Le Pen, a right-wing populist, is the favourite to win the first round of France’s presidential election next year, Canada still opens its borders to immigrants and is led by a liberal and centrist government.

Nowadays, Canada clearly embodies openness and success. It looks like Canada is now replacing the US for that. We might even talk about a “Canada dream” instead of the traditional “American dream” which is still very present in immigrants’ minds. The proof is that immigrants in general have already made that shift in their minds and now plan to move to Canada before any other country. *Global News, in its article “Canada could see a rise in illegal immigration due to Trump’s crackdown”, explains that immigrants now see Canada as the best destination since they believe Canada is a country were opportunities are more numerous than in the US. Therefore, we now all see Canada as the only country which stands for openness and that is why we consider it is easy to move there. It is a matter of comparison/it is all about comparison.

Finally, if we can’t help thinking moving to Canada is easy, this is also probably because we think it’s easy to become integrated. *As former British prime minister Tony Blair puts it, Canada seems to be “a country that's got people of different faiths and races and cultures living together in what appears to be reasonable harmony. ». Indeed, we all see Canada as a huge melting pot at the root of Canadian identity. That is also to say Canada does not have a proper and specific identity. Even its current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau once