Quebec business lobby says province needs to boost immigration levels to meet labour-market needs

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The group says Quebec needs about 60,000 immigrants annually — 20,000 more than the government plans on accepting in 2019 — if it hopes to reduce labour shortages across the province and spur economic growth

This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Quebec should significantly boost planned immigration levels and soften French-language requirements for newcomers in order to better meet the needs of the labour market, a major business lobby group said Monday.

A legislature committee is holding public consultations at the legislature on Quebec’s 2020-22 immigration policy. They began Monday and run until Thursday. The federation’s presentation notes Quebec has 120,000 jobs that need to be filled, “at a time when Quebec has never had a smaller number of people available for a job since 1976.”

 

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Poor Quebec!!After passing their racist laws I imagine they are not getting any more millions from the rich Arab immigrants. Lol.

If labour market needs are not being met at the current levels then the number of immigrants being admitted is not the issue. The quality of those immigrants is.

i'd be willing to move to QC for work, my contract ends in 7 months

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