{"id":1201,"date":"2014-03-19T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/19\/rampant-non-francophone-poverty-needs\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:41:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:41:15","slug":"rampant-non-francophone-poverty-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/19\/rampant-non-francophone-poverty-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Rampant non-francophone poverty needs urgent attention"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Robert Frank<\/b>
\nwww.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Laval could learn from Paris. Like the capital of France, the city has two faces: It offers tony neighbourhoods for arriviste<\/i> francophones and has become one of Quebec\u2019s favourite destinations for immigrants, whom the job market spurns, trapping them in crushing poverty. <\/p>\n

Last year, The Suburban<\/i> reported data from the 2011 census<\/a>, which showed that Laval\u2019s poverty is ghettoized where the greatest concentration of newcomers to the country live. <\/p>\n

Sometimes, though, affluence and want live side-by-side, like in Abord \u00e0 Plouffe, where the shiny condo towers of \u00cele Paton contrast starkly with the district\u2019s low-income tenements. <\/p>\n

What\u2019s news is the shocking disparity between Laval\u2019s francophone population and non-francophones described in the poverty data contained in the five-year development plan that the city published last week (see accompanying report<\/a>). <\/p>\n

\u201cNearly one of every two welfare recipients in Laval is an immigrant,\u201d the plan stated, \u201cor 43.3 percent, in contrast with 28 percent for the entire province of Quebec.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese socioeconomic challenges add to the challenge of living together as well as its corollaries, namely: social cohesion, harmonious intercultural relations, sensitizing employers to immigrant workers\u2019 potential and preparing Laval society to welcome and integrate this new population,\u201d page 39 of the plan continued. <\/p>\n

In a single paragraph, the city has highlighted a longstanding flaw in Quebec\u2019s approach to immigration. <\/p>\n

Laval has highlighted how the province places inordinate pressure on immigrants to assimilate linguistically and culturally, while systemically failing to integrate them into the workforce. <\/p>\n

The problem is not unique to Quebec. It was highlighted in the residentially segregated suburbs of Paris in 2005. Unemployment was rife in these ghettoized districts, known to Parisians as banlieues<\/i>, where immigrant dissatisfaction erupted into widespread violence. <\/p>\n

Laval\u2019s immigrant round table has already recognized the problem and has joined with Quebec to take steps to sensitize employers (see accompanying report<\/a><\/a>).<\/p>\n

While that\u2019s welcome, all levels of government would do better to lead by example. <\/p>\n

The provincial and municipal civil service simply don\u2019t reflect a cross-section of the city\u2019s and the province\u2019s population. They have disproportionately become havens for old-stock Quebecers. The federal civil service in Quebec would also do well to measure the skew of its demographics. <\/p>\n

Opening the civil service doors to employing non-francophones would be an excellent start. An affirmative-action program to redress decades of exclusion would be even better. <\/p>\n

Gainful employment is the best means to integrate the population. There is little point in exhorting non-francophones to speak flawless French, if they can\u2019t earn a living here. <\/p>\n

A decade after Paris, income disparity and unemployment risks rendering Laval a similar tinderbox. Were government to take the lead in integrating immigrants into the workforce, it needn\u2019t be thus. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Last year, The Suburban reported data from the 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nRampant non-francophone poverty needs urgent attention - Newscoverage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/19\/rampant-non-francophone-poverty-needs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rampant non-francophone poverty needs urgent attention - Newscoverage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Robert Frank www.thesuburban.com Laval could learn from Paris. 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