{"id":63489,"date":"2022-09-11T10:57:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T15:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63489"},"modified":"2022-09-11T10:57:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T15:57:22","slug":"as-the-planet-warms-people-are-moving-will-canada-welcome-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63489","title":{"rendered":"As the planet warms, people are moving. Will Canada welcome them?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the planet warms, people are moving. Will Canada welcome them?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Temporary foreign workers from Mexico plant strawberries on a farm in Mirabel, Que., on May 6, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Graham Hughes<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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As droughts, deteriorating farmland and rising sea levels push people around the world from their homes, advocates in Canada are calling on the federal government to support those who are \u2014 and will be \u2014 displaced by the climate crisis.<\/p>\n

Last week, Climate Action Network Canada (CAN-Rac), a body of more than 100 environmental groups across the country, sent a\u00a0letter\u00a0<\/a>to Prime Minister\u00a0Justin Trudeau<\/a>\u00a0and Immigration Minister Sean Fraser asking them to grant permanent residency to all 1.7 million migrants in Canada, including half a million undocumented people. This \u201cregularization\u201d process is key to climate justice, explained Caroline Brouillette, national policy manager for CAN-Rac.<\/p>\n

\u201cFighting the climate crisis is not only about reducing our emissions, it\u2019s about how we care for one another \u2014 and that\u2019s why we\u2019re asking for this,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Climate change is already a factor causing people to immigrate to Canada, said Syed Hussan, the executive director of the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (MWAC), which worked with CAN-Rac to send the letter. But while climate migrants come to the country as workers, students or refugees, they \u201cmay not even be able to describe their experiences having resulted from climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said many migrants’ understanding of climate change is that it causes poverty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201c[Climate change is] actually closely linked to economic deterioration,\u201d Hussan explained.<\/p>\n

Take farmers, for example. Soil degradation is one of climate change’s greatest impacts, he said. Poor soil means poor crops, forcing farmers to move to towns and cities to find work. But many fail to find jobs in larger urban centres, he added, leaving them no choice but to leave their home country and seek opportunities in Canada.<\/p>\n

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As the planet warms, people are moving. Will Canada welcome them? Temporary foreign workers from Mexico plant strawberries on a farm in Mirabel, Que., on May 6, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Graham Hughes As droughts, deteriorating farmland and rising sea levels push people around the world from their homes, advocates in Canada are calling on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[103,141,33149,369,33150,31372],"class_list":["post-63489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-canada","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-refugees","tag-global-warming","tag-hanna-hett","tag-national-observer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63490,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63489\/revisions\/63490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}