As a long-retired school administrator, over the years I observed that most parents shared one objective: to make sure their children had the best chance for a meaningful life. Perhaps that meant focusing on certain math courses that were prerequisites for other programs. Often it meant ensuring a level of French proficiency that would, they expected, afford their child a level playing field. Parents would camp out in wintery conditions to enrol their youngsters in a highly regarded French immersion school.
Quebec is implementing a six-month freeze on the intake of new temporary foreign workers for low-wage jobs in Montreal starting in September, the province’s premier said Tuesday.
François Legault’s announcement comes as his government has been calling for a “significant and rapid” reduction in the number of temporary immigrants in Quebec. The total number across the province has doubled to 600,000 from 300,000 in just two years, he said.
English-speaking residents of Québec report feeling increasingly alienated and unwelcome due to restrictive language policies, according to a federal study by the Commissioner of Official Languages.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the study highlights the growing discontent among anglophones who feel pressured to abandon their language in favor of French.
That’s how the Québec Liberal Party is selling a plan for the province to adopt its own constitution — as a means of strengthening Confederation, not weakening it.
If times are good, immigration does not drive politics. If times are bad, immigrants fast become a lightening rod — and a political football. This predictable pattern played out in recent European Parliament elections, where the economy, migration and war were the top issues. Nationalist right-wing parties promising to crack down on immigration, including that of Marine Le Pen in France and Georgia Meloni in Italy, won the day.
The Canadian Party of Quebec announced Monday it’s studying the feasibility of creating an eleventh province out of a partitioned Quebec, and a former member of the party has launched a separate group that plans to hold an online public meeting on the issue of partition this week.
Quebec Premier François Legault is asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to slow the influx of asylum seekers entering the province, which he said is nearing a “breaking point.”
Legault made his request in an official letter to Trudeau sent Wednesday afternoon, a copy of which was obtained by The Canadian Press.
“We are very close to the breaking point due to the excessive number of asylum seekers arriving in Quebec month after month. The situation has become unsustainable,” Legault wrote.
The original French reads as “Dump them in Ontario.”
Quebec is hitting the brakes on its euthanasia program, warning of rising numbers of ‘non-compliant cases,’ and telling doctors to be more prudent about who gets a lethal injection.
DailyMail.com has seen an official memo to warn Quebec doctors about fatal jabs that shouldn’t have been allowed, and urging them to give patients more time to reconsider a monumental decision.
Quebec saw its number of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) cases rise to nearly 5,000 last year — making it a global euthanasia hotspot, where 7-8 percent of all deaths are due to lethal jabs.
OTTAWA, ON: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is highlighting a fundamental unfairness in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax policy: Quebec is paying a lower carbon tax than the rest of Canada.
“The math is simple: Trudeau is forcing drivers in every other province and territory to pay 14 cents per litre of gas in carbon taxes, while Quebecers pay 10 cents per litre,” Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal Director, said. “The solution is also simple: Trudeau should scrap his carbon taxes and make life more affordable for all Canadians.”
Trudeau is forcing drivers in every other province and territory to pay 14 cents per litre of gas in carbon taxes, while Quebecers pay 10 cents per litre.
Trudeau’s special deal for Quebec shows the carbon tax was always about politics, not the environment. pic.twitter.com/a3v3cEQ7Bi
OTTAWA – Quebec is taking a dwindling share of Canada’s new immigrants, and significantly less than its proportional national share, as it maintains tight caps on newcomers, even as the Trudeau government continues to open the floodgates to more immigration nationally.
… But Quebec brought in 68,820 people, roughly 15.7 per cent of the immigrants to Canada, despite the province representing nearly 23 per cent of Canada’s population.
By contrast, Ontario took 184,000 newcomers in 2022, 42 per cent of the total who came to Canada, even though Ontario represents 38 per cent of Canada’s population. And British Columbia welcomed more than 61,000 people, almost as many as Quebec did, despite B.C. having a population that is 3.5-million people fewer than Quebec.
The government is never your friend but in Canada they are an outright enemy. Canada’s immigration policy is designed to benefit the Corporate class.
That you and your family may suffer due to shortages in housing, medical care and economic insecurity is brushed aside assuming it was even taken into consideration.
Our mainstream political parties, the LPC, CPC and NDP are all in on the scam hoping to harvest ethnic vote blocs.
The Liberals outsourced Canada’s immigration policy to Dominic Barton and McKinsey & Company.
They just don’t care about you or the havoc mass immigration has on our society.
Quebec noticed. Good for them.
Zeihan’s comments on Canadian immigration are interesting, basically we’re probably fecked.
MONTREAL—It’s hard to get a second chance to make a good first impression. Pierre Poilievre will be trying to do just that as he embarks on an early-year visit to Quebec next week.
The latest Conservative leader has his work cut out for him. In Canada’s second largest province, Poilievre is not only much less popular than his main rivals, but he is also off to a poorer start than his three predecessors.
In voting intentions, the Conservative party lags far behind both the leading Liberals and the Bloc Québécois. At 19 per cent, the party’s Quebec tally is its lowest provincial score.
Quebec Premier François Legault is maintaining that the province cannot accept more than 50,000 immigrants a year despite Ottawa’s plans to significantly raise the country’s immigration levels.
The federal government, Legault told reporters Wednesday, needs to understand that Quebec is facing a “special challenge” to preserve the French language.
François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec party will once again form a majority government in Quebec, CBC News projects.
Polls across the province closed as of 8 p.m. ET and Quebecers will soon find out which party will form their next government. However, some voters will still be allowed to cast their ballots.
Élections Quebec has confirmed that voting is suspended at three locations in Montreal’s Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood, in the city’s west end, due to a power outage. Voting there will resume once the power comes back.
Coalition Avenir Quebec Leader Francois Legault says incumbent Immigration Minister Jean Boulet is no longer qualified to hold that job after Boulet said the majority of immigrants to the province “don’t work.”
Legault on Wednesday was forced to confront the statement Boulet made during a Sept. 21 election debate. The premier held a series of media interviews during which he said Boulet would no longer be immigration minister if the CAQ wins the Oct. 3 election.
Legault and team are getting the message out. Apologies are just the price you pay if you can be bothered at all.
François Legault has apologized for comments he made citing the threat of “extremism” and “violence” as well as the need to preserve Quebec’s way of life as reasons to limit the number of immigrants to the province.
“Immigration is a richness for Quebec,” the leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec tweeted Wednesday late afternoon, hours after he made the statement at an election campaign stop in Victoriaville, Que.
“Integration will always be a challenge for a French-speaking nation in North America. I didn’t mean to associate immigration with violence. I am sorry if my comments caused confusion. My desire is to unite.”
François Legault has apologized for comments he made citing the threat of “extremism” and “violence” as well as the need to preserve Quebec’s way of life as reasons to limit the number of immigrants to the province.