A new confrontation is emerging between Ottawa and Quebec over the issue of immigration control.
Premier François Legault really wants to return to Quebec all immigration power, a jurisdiction traditionally shared between the two levels of government.
He makes it a question of survival for the nation of Quebec, which does not hesitate to express the specter of Louisiana and the gradual disappearance of the French language in Quebec if the status quo is maintained.
He intends to claim a strong command to the population during the election on October 3 to give themselves real balance of power with Ottawa coming the time to negotiate the patriation at last of all immigration powers in Quebec, except those relating to refugees.
Mr. Legault chose to close the convention of his party, the Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ), on Sunday with a speech with strong nationalist content delivered to more than a thousand activists gathered in Drummondville this weekend around the theme of pride.
An old claim
The total immigration control of the National Assembly is linked to the very existence of the people of Quebec, he argued, concerned that the federal government has decision-making power for nearly half of newcomers, including those coming through the family reunification process. Approximately half of them do not speak French, a threat to Quebec, according to him.
The request for patriation of powers in this area is not a new request from Quebec, which has always hit a wall in the past.
But Mr. Legault makes it a priority and he says he is sure to succeed where others have failed before him. So Quebecers should expect to hear a lot about immigration in the next election campaign.
I am confident that we can get these immigration powers from themhe said at a press conference.
He remained skeptical about what to do next in the event of a new category rejection from the federal government. However, he rejected the idea of a referendum on the subject.
Quebec welcomes approximately 50,000 immigrants a year.
save the french
It is important for Quebecers to understand that this is a question of safety for French Quebec, said Mr. Legault, who threatened to use his teaching talents in the coming months to convince the population to adhere to his views on the issue.
Because if nothing changes, it may be a matter of time before we become a Louisianahe insisted.
Regarding the general election on October 3, the leader of CAQ said people should be careful ideologies left and right, referred to, without naming them, the Québec solidaire (QS) and the Conservative Party of Québec (PCQ).
In his speech, the Prime Minister gave a very flattering assessment of the achievements of his government, which concluded that after four years of CAQ management, Quebec has become more prosperous and proud than ever.
We changed Quebecaccording to him.
The unspoken
In economics, he said voters should rely on experienced people to deal with the climate unstable which is on the horizon in the next mandate. He promised to help people fight inflation, and promised that he would make a concrete announcement about that impact, in cash, in the next election campaign.
But he said nothing about the worst and most acute economic problem today, the labor shortage.
He also did not list the many problems accessing health care, including ever-growing waiting lists, both in the emergency room and to get surgery or register on the family doctor’s patients list.
But he said he had in his game the master Card to solve various network problems in the second term in the person of Christian Dubé, its Minister of Health, who recently announced his intention to be a candidate again. Mr. Dubé then received a standing ovation from CAQ activists.
Meanwhile, four months before the election deadline, the process of recruiting candidates for CAQ the next election is going well. There are already nearly a hundred constituencies that know the name of their CAQ candidate, of which currently half are women. There are still 29 candidates out of 125 to be identified.
Source: Radio-Canada
