The governing Coalition Avenir Quebec party has kept its permanent immigration targets at between 40,000 and 50,000 over the past four years, saying it wants to make sure the province can properly integrate newcomers and help them learn French.
Leblanc acknowledges some parties have been reluctant to talk about raising immigration numbers in the past, but he says the situation has changed and the need for workers can no longer be ignored.
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