« Ça serait un peu suicidaire » pour la nation québécoise d’accueillir plus de 50 000 nouveaux arrivants par année, a déclaré François Legault mercredi devant la Chambre de commerce du Montréal métropolitain qui réclame d’augmenter davantage les seuils d’immigration.
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« Des gens disent : où vous avez pris ça, la capacité d’intégration ? Bien, [les chiffres] are clear. There is a decline [du français]. If we keep the same recipe, it will give the same cake, ”he argued in front of an audience of 800 business people.
He argued that if he is re-elected, the immigration threshold will “stay at 50,000, but we will be more demanding on knowledge of French. We will try to send a greater percentage to the French-speaking regions, that will help”.
“But as long as we have not stopped the decline of French, I think that for the Quebec nation which wants to protect French, it would be a little suicidal to go and increase” the thresholds, he launched.
In his speech, François Legault announced that, if re-elected, his first bill would seek to cap government rate increases at 3% or the rate of inflation if lower than that percentage.