This issue was also at the heart of the Liberal leader’s campaign, as he accused his CAQ rival completely wrong and implies that his election would constitute the greatest risk for Quebec. We know the rest.

If leaders in 2022 have the same discourse on inflation and the need to provide better financial support to Quebecers, the dividing line is much clearer on identity-related issues such as protecting the French, secularism and immigration.

When you hear them talk about the labor shortage, you’re tempted to think that the Liberal Party and the Parti Québécois live on two different planets. Dominique Anglade confirms this Any party that refuses to recognize that immigration is a solution to labor shortages disqualifies itself in economic matters.

Paul St-Pierre Plamondon claims otherwise The claim that we constantly hear in the media that raising immigration thresholds makes it possible to fill the labor shortage is factually incorrect and wrong. Who to believe?

Apart from the validity of the respective positions, many gray areas remain in the arguments of the different parties.

regionalization

the QLP and the QP suggest, for example, very different immigration thresholds, namely 70,000 and 35,000 people per year. However, both intend to set more restrictive targets in relation to the regionalization of immigration and give priority to candidates wishing to settle in the regions.

The problem is that despite the many initiatives taken in recent years to promote their regionalization, immigration remains largely an urban phenomenon.

According to document Presence and regional portraits of immigrants admitted to Quebec 2010 to 2019 (New window)69.6% of immigrants who arrived in Quebec between 2009 and 2019 live in the greater Montreal area. The proportion is even slightly higher if only the last five years of this interval are taken into account. Ms Anglade and Mr St-Pierre Plamondon intend to propose stimulus measures to reverse the trend, but do not indicate what they will do if the selected candidates fail to meet their commitments.

Questions can also be raised about François Legault’s strategy. during the show 5 chiefs, a choicePresenting on Sunday, he reiterated his desire to repatriate more powers from the federal government over immigration issues.

The leader of CAQ claim that You must seek a balance of power, but he didn’t offer a game plan to deal with the rejection, which has so far been denied by Justin Trudeau. François Legault points out that he managed to sign an agreement with his federal counterpart on the funding of childcare services, but fails to mention that Ottawa took the initiative on this issue.

fringing

Like the Liberal Party, Québec solidaire also wants to raise immigration thresholds. The party would leave it to experts to determine the exact figure, within a range of 60,000 to 80,000 immigrants per year. Charge against François Legault to be obsessed with LouisianaGabriel Nadeau-Dubois pleaded for better franking.

In 2017, however, the Auditor General documented the many shortcomings of these programs, concluding that 90% of immigrants who took franking courses were unable to speak French on a daily basis. Québec solidaire believes it can do better by promoting franking in the workplace, but the success of such a large-scale operation remains uncertain.

As for Éric Duhaime, his concept of only welcoming permanent immigrants according to their compatibility with civilization remains unclear. The type of operationalization is just as important.

Ultimately, the five parties seem to have in common, above all, to set up hypotheses and figures on the immigration question that serve to provide orientation.

Among these gray areas, one question remains: by making the shortage of manpower her priority, will Dominique Anglade succeed in achieving a different result from Philippe Couillard?