Quebec Invites 444 Candidates In Latest Expression of Interest Draw

Quebec Invites 444 Candidates In Latest Expression of Interest Draw
2019-09-20 – Quebec immigration has announced the details of the latest draw under its new Expression of Interest system, known at Arrima. The draw saw 444 invitations to apply to the Quebec Skilled Worker Program issued on August 19, 2019. The profiles were extracted from the Arrima bank on August 15, 2019. The invites were
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Quebec Announces Plan To Improve Access To MIDI Services For Businesses

Quebec Announces Plan To Improve Access To MIDI Services For Businesses
Aug 29, 2019 – Quebec has announced it will open 40 new immigration ministry (MIDI) service points across the province to improve access for businesses and regions. The expansion will include the addition of more than 100 new staff and mean Quebec immigration has a presence in 50 cities across the French-speaking province, Immigration Minister
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Quebec Spends $55m Helping Businesses Hire Temporary Workers While Cutting Skilled Worker Immigration

Quebec Spends $55m Helping Businesses Hire Temporary Workers While Cutting Skilled Worker Immigration
Aug 27, 2019 – Quebec has announced new funding to support businesses looking to hire temporary foreign workers, with the province in the grip of a labour shortage. The governing Coalition Avenir Quebec will spend nearly $55 million to help the recruitment and integration of temporary workers. The funding comes as the CAQ follows through
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Quebec Government Immigration Plan Backfires as Fewer French-Speaking Immigrants Accepted

Quebec Government Immigration Plan Backfires as Fewer French-Speaking Immigrants Accepted
Aug 26, 2019 – The Quebec government’s policy of cutting immigration has resulted in the province welcoming dramatically fewer of the type of newcomers most likely to find jobs and integrate quickly, new figures show. Numbers of French-speaking newcomers plummeted in the first half of 2019 compared to the same period of 2018 – completely
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Quebec Sees Sharp Rise In Temporary Workers As Provincial Government Cuts Immigration

Quebec Sees Sharp Rise In Temporary Workers As Provincial Government Cuts Immigration
Aug 19, 2019 – Quebec is seeing as significant rise in the number of temporary foreign workers as businesses look for other avenues to bring in labour with the provincial government cutting immigration. The number of work permits issued for Quebec rose by 36 per cent in 2018, with 17,685 permits issued during the year.
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Quebec Government Urged To Increase Immigration To Tackle Chronic Labour Shortage

Quebec Government Urged To Increase Immigration To Tackle Chronic Labour Shortage
Aug 14, 2019 – Quebec business owners have urged the provincial government to increase immigration immediately to help ease a chronic labour shortage. Lobby group Conseil du patronat du Quebec says more immigrants are needed to avoid slowing the French-speaking province’s economy. Quebec’s historic low unemployment rate of 4.9 per cent is indicative of the struggle
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Quebec Adds 16,600 Jobs To Maintain Historically Low Unemployment

Quebec Adds 16,600 Jobs To Maintain Historically Low Unemployment
Aug 09, 2019 – Quebec added 16,600 jobs in July to maintain a historically low unemployment rate of 4.9 per cent, new Canada jobs figures show. The Statistics Canada Labour Force Survey puts the French-speaking province second only to British Columbia in terms of provincial unemployment. Canada-wide, unemployment edged up to 5.7 per cent in
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Quebec Launches ‘Personalized Career Pathway’ For New Immigrants

Quebec Launches ‘Personalized Career Pathway’ For New Immigrants
Aug 09, 2019 – The Quebec provincial government has launched a new program for integrating immigrants that it is calling the ‘Personalized Career Pathway’. Newcomers will get help from Quebec immigration ministry (MIDI) officers from before they arrive, with the aim of quickly integrating them into the Quebec labour market and community. The Coalition Avenir
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Quebec To Start Issuing Invitations Under New Expression of Interest Immigration System

Quebec To Start Issuing Invitations Under New Expression of Interest Immigration System
Jun 19, 2019 – Invitations through the Quebec Expression of Interest system will start to be issued in the coming weeks after the passing of Bill 9 scrapped the backlog of existing Quebec Skilled Worker applications. Nearly 115,000 profiles have already been registered in the ‘Arrima’ system since it opened in September 2018. Quebec’s immigration
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16,000 Quebec Immigration Applications Scrapped As CAQ Forces Through Bill 9

Quebec Expression of Interest System ‘Arrima’ Scheduled For September Launch
Jun 17, 2019 – Quebec’s National Assembly sat into the early hours of Sunday morning to eventually pass Bill 9, controversial immigration legislation that means 16,000 skilled worker applications will be scrapped. It took a 19-hour session enforced by the ruling Coalition Avenir Quebec for the bill to become law at 4am on Sunday, June
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