Quibek Media reported on December 13: Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau recently said that Quibec can receive 112,000 immigrants well every year, mainly French-speaking immigrants in order to maintain its political influence in the country while protecting French.
"Quebec is currently fully capable of receiving 112,000 immigrants a year...this is true," Trudeau said in an interview with Canadian media yesterday afternoon. "Quebec already has "all the tools" and is fully capable of ensuring that all these immigrants come from French-speaking countries."
However, Trudeau added that he is not recommending 112,000 immigrants a year as a specific level.
Trudeau previously announced that "Canada welcomes 500,000 immigrants each year by 2025." Quebecs account for 22.3% of Canada's population. The number "112,000" is the "Quebec quota" calculated based on this ratio (the actual number is 111,500 people). In the interview with
, Trudeau repeatedly pointed out that "immigration" is a "important solution" to solve the labor shortage problem in Quebec, and other parts of the country.
Trudeau stressed that "Quebec does not need to sacrifice its influence in Canada when returning to the economy. Quebec should consider raising the 'immigration threshold'. This is what the Quebec government can and should reflect on."
However, in the matter of "immigration", Quebec governor François Legault is "quite decisive". As it is now, "admitting more than 50,000 permanent immigrants every year" is "complete suicide" for his province.
Legault once said that this is not a digital issue, it is a question of "respect, welcome, learn French and integrate into society".
For the interests of Quebec, in fact, almost all parties in Quebec do not believe that the province should accept too many immigrants. In recent campaigns, Quebec Solidarity Party proposed immigration acceptance ranges from 60,000 to 80,000 people per year, while the Liberal Party of Quebec proposed a threshold of 70,000 per year and the Quebec Party of 35,000 per year. As soon as the latest "500,000 Immigration Target" was announced, Christine Fréchette, Minister of Immigration, Frenchization and Integration of Quebec immediately spoke out: "No matter how many immigrants arrive in other parts of Canada, the number of immigrants received by Quebec will not change."
Two weeks ago, Legault delivered an important speech to the Quebec National Assembly. He said that the future of Quebec French must be linked to immigration policy... It is his unshirkable responsibility to reverse the decline in French usage.
Legault believes that "Quebec should rely on receiving more French-speaking immigrants to achieve this." His goal is to "all economic immigrants received by 2026 are French-speaking people".
Statistics show that the proportion of Quebecs in Canada's population has been steadily declining, from 27.8% in 1972 to 22.3% in 2022. A 50-year decline of 5.5%.
In contrast, Ontarians account for Canada's population has been growing steadily over the same period, from 35.8% to 38.8%. 50 years of growth of 3.0%.
The increase or decrease in the population ratio is directly related to Quebec's "right to speak" in Canada.
Last spring, a bill that ensured Quebec retained its 78 seats in Congress (a total of 338 seats). However, the bill simply prevents the decline in the number of representatives in the province (i.e., not losing a seat), but it cannot prevent a relative decline in seat weight (seats elsewhere may increase due to population increase).
Finally, the editor will sort out that Trudeau’s speech yesterday actually contained three key points:
First, “distributed” 112,000 people to Quebec who only accept 50,000 people per year.
Second, integrate immigrants from French-speaking countries (French-speaking) into Quebec as much as possible.
Third, 112,000 immigrants per year may not be used as a specific standard.
Trudeau's words obviously seem to be very straightforward on the surface, but he is looking for a step in his heart. I don't know how the Governor of Quebec responds. Quebec Media will provide you with tracking reports.
Article originated from:
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-can-welcome-112-000-immigrants-a-year-says-trudeau-1.6192284
