Quebec’s target for immigration is now at 50,000, just 10 per cent of the Canadian target of 500,000 a year by 2025
Quebec sovereigntists were buzzing last week as if they’d found an issue to breathe new life into their cause: the federal government’s expanded immigration targets.
So while English Canada’s political Twitter was fighting over passport illustrations, Quebec’s political class was bellowing about the Century Initiative. The National Assembly passed a resolution criticizing it. Premier François Legault spoke out. Ottawa’s decision to expand immigration targets by half doesn’t mean Canada is hurtling toward 100 million in 2100. There are 77 years until then. But it does ramp up the pace of immigration at a time when Quebec is slowing the rate at which it accepts newcomers, leaving the two seriously out of whack.
It would be better if Quebec decided that a province of nine million with a dynamic and attractive culture could bridge some of the gap, and protect French and strengthen its culture, with somewhat higher levels of immigration. And, Mr. Béland noted, some Quebec parties support higher targets. While all that happened last week, Ottawa’s reaction was weak. Mr. Fraser lamely protested in wooden French that immigration can integrate francophones.
Another group was cool to it: economists who specialize in immigration. A group of them told the government that higher immigration – at least as practised by Canada – won’t make the standard of living rise. It would make the economy bigger, sure, but not per capita.
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