23 July 2019

CAQ bill boosts power to verify values, French proficiency of immigrants

The just-tabled Bill 9 would also help eliminate the backlog of applicants — and give government the power to move them to the regions.

https://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/caq-bill-boosts-power-to-verify-values-french-proficiency-of-immigrants


QUEBEC — The immigration minister has tabled sweeping legislation designed to eventually increase his powers to verify the knowledge of French, Quebec and democratic values of new arrivals as was promised in the provincial election campaign.

And the Coalition Avenir Québec government is also seeking the power to trash a large chunk of the backlog of 18,000 immigrant applications it found sitting in government file cabinets when it took over from the Liberals rather than try to process them.

Quebec plans to refund the $1,000 application fee for anyone who applied to enter Quebec as an economic immigration before Aug. 2, 2018 under the Regular Skilled Worker Progra

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