Etiket: Immigrants
Delays in 4-year-old kindergarten due to immigrants, according to Drainville
The Minister of Education, Bernard Drainville, points the finger at the arrival of temporary immigrants to explain the government’s delays in opening 4-year-old kindergarten classes. In one year, Quebec opened…
Dismissed immigrants find themselves trapped by their employment contract
More and more immigrants invited to Canada on a two or three year work contract are finding themselves unemployed due to the economic slowdown. Many of them then plunge into…
Construction sector | Québec solidaire wants more immigrants as reinforcements
(Quebec) Immigrants can help alleviate the housing crisis, says Québec solidaire, which offers a fast track to permanent immigration for newcomers working in the construction industry. Published at 12:49 a.m.…
New increase in temporary immigrants in Quebec at the end of 2023
The number of non-permanent residents in Quebec increased again at the end of 2023 to reach a total of more than 560,000 people as of 1er last January. An increase…
New increase in temporary immigrants in Quebec at the end of 2023
The number of non-permanent residents in Quebec increased again at the end of 2023, an increase which can be explained in particular by the massive arrival of asylum seekers, for…
Ottawa tightens levels of temporary immigrants
The federal government will limit the number of temporary residents after its numbers “increased significantly”, now reaching 2.5 million people in Canada. “Starting this fall, for the first time, we…
Immigrants facing the myth of monolingualism
This text is part of the special Francophonie notebook Under the guise of francization, immigrants are often asked to leave their linguistic baggage at home. As if French could not…
Inclusion of immigrants: pushing businesses into action
This text is part of the special Research section Getting organizations to commit to hiring immigrants, integrating them and ensuring their professional progression is the objective of an initiative supported…
“When we propose to expel all immigrants, we have nothing to do at the Pantheon,” says the son of Joseph Epstein shot in 1944
Georges Duffau-Epstein recalls that Missak “Manouchian was stateless, therefore deportable if we listen to Marine Le Pen”. For Joseph Epstein’s son, the former presidential candidate should have had “the decency…
Report from the French Language Commissioner: $13 billion to Frenchify temporary immigrants
Francising all temporary immigrants, whose numbers have exploded on Quebec territory since 2016, would cost between $10.6 and $12.9 billion, reveals the second report of the Commissioner for the French…
Light survey on immigration: Quebecers and Canadians find that Canada poorly integrates its immigrants
Few Canadians and Quebecers believe that Canada succeeds in integrating its immigrants well, shows a large Léger-The newspaper-VAT on the population’s perception of immigration. • Read also: Light Survey: Coderre…
Immigrants, first victims of the economic slowdown
Immigrants are suffering more than anyone from the economic downturn. Their unemployment rate has jumped in the last year, while it remains almost unchanged for the rest of the Quebec…
Immigrants and domestic violence, the end of silence
A primordial fear runs through the story of the immigrants to whom The duty gave voice in its pages and in its podcast. Caught in the net of domestic violence…
“We, the others”: an analysis of the complex relationships between Quebec and its immigrants
A photo of the father of journalist Toula Drimonis appears on the cover of her essay Us, the others, just published in a translation by Mélissa Verreault at Somme Tout.…
Ordinary immigrants, reactionary speeches | The Press
While the ordinary immigrant is at the heart of heated public debates, more often than not, he or she does not have a voice. We talk about him without him,…
The COVID-19 pandemic has hurt the economic integration of permanent immigrants
The pandemic has weakened the economy and complicated access to the job market, including for immigrants, recalls a Statistics Canada study. And those who became permanent in 2019 paid the…
528,000 temporary immigrants, “that’s too many,” says Québec solidaire
There are too many temporary immigrants in Quebec, admits Québec solidaire, which however does not come forward with the means to reduce their number. “These questions are complex,” said the…
Is this really what we want for immigrants? For Quebec?
In her column published on January 19, Aurélie Lanctôt demonstrates intellectual dishonesty by writing, about my colleague leader of the Parti Québécois (PQ), Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, that “the heart of…
Quebec will have “no choice” to welcome more immigrants, believes the PLQ
Quebec will have “no choice” to welcome more immigrants in the coming years, and it must therefore tackle “as hard as possible” the essential demands of immigrants who are already…
Let’s not slow down the momentum of immigrants who want to massively invest in French classes
Get involved, they said! There are thousands of immigrants who are responding to the Legault government, which wants to see them massively invest in our French classes. This momentum unfortunately…