The feds should not be making it easier for any province to weaken its own economy, and thereby the country’s
The newly re-elected Legault wants more power from Ottawa to control new arrivals, and he wants to use that power to freeze immigration at 50,000 per year, down from 70,000, even as employers, struggling with labour shortages like elsewhere in Canada, are pleading for more: The Federation of Quebec Chambers of Commerce estimates there are 271,000 job vacancies in the province, andThe NP Comment newsletter from columnist Colby Cosh and NP Comment editors tackles the important topics with...
This ought to be a no-brainer: Ottawa should not be making it easier for any province to weaken its own economy, and thereby the country’s. But Ottawa has tiptoed on eggshells around other parts of the Coalition Avenir Québec agenda: cracking down on hijab-wearing teachers and draconian new restrictions on languages other than French . The federal Conservatives pitched broader powers to Quebec in the past two elections, including over immigration.
Speaking at the Montreal Chamber of Commerce, Legault said it would be “suicidal” for Quebec to accept more than 50,000 a year. “Quebecers… don’t like conflict and extremism and violence,” he told reporters on the campaign trail, explaining his position. “We have to make sure to keep things the way they are now.”Incumbent Trois-Rivières MNA Jean Boulet took that ball and ran with it during a televised local candidates’ debate.
Meanwhile, the central absurdity remains: if preserving the French language is Job One, there are plenty of potential francophone immigrants out there waiting to be wooed. Francophone countries withinclude Mali, the Central African Republic, Haiti, Lebanon, Senegal and Algeria. Alas, some of those people insist on reading the Koran and importing other strange folkways, like religious symbols and garments, which Quebec suddenly decided — not very long ago at all — were social threats.
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