(Alma) The Parti Québécois (PQ) will reassess its permanent immigration thresholds, currently set at 35,000 new arrivals per year.
PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon did not want to give details and refused to say whether the PQ was considering lowering its thresholds. “We are going to redo our calculations and when we have done our work properly, we will come back to you,” he indicated at a press briefing in Alma, Wednesday, during his party’s pre-sessional caucus.
During the last election in 2022, the PQ announced that it wanted to reduce the thresholds to 35,000 permanent immigrants per year.
Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon, however, recognized that the situation had changed a lot since then. “It’s true that during the election, not only was the housing crisis not acute and we didn’t have all the data, but the question of temporary immigration was almost peripheral. We talked all the time about permanent immigration,” he said.
There are currently more than half a million temporary immigrants in Quebec.