风暴：积压13年18000份移民申请 魁北克移民部长打算全废 改在线申请
魁北克政府计划，将目前存在的18000份移民申请积案全部作废。新任的魁北克政府将会开始修改省内的移民法规，并更加强调法语语言技能，以及魁北克本身的劳工需求。
在星期四，魁北克政府计划出台9号法案。魁省移民部长Simon Jolin-Barrette表示，新的法案将会让魁北克的移民重新开始，并着重强调解决劳工短缺的问题。
“我们想要为全世界的所有人提供机会。但是我们想要说，如果想要来到魁北克，你需要学习法语，接纳魁北克的价值，并且一直留在这里。”
Jolin-Barrette以知名社交软件tinder类比，称移民者与需求需要匹配。部长表示，现在的魁北克系统是先来先得，而不是针对劳工市场的需求制定的。
9号法案将会要求移民学习法语，并且容纳进入民主价值。并且将会给予移民部长为外国人申请永久居民设置特定条件，并确保他们达到了这些条件。移民们需要与魁北克省达成“语言、社会、与经济的融合”。
不过法案并没有细讲，这些措施将会怎样被做到。也有专家表示，政策关于“民主价值”的要求，有违反宪法的可能。
Interim Liberal leader Pierre Arcand refuted government claims that some of the files in the pile of 18,000 applications are 13 years old. Having checked himself, there are only six files that old, Arcand said.
Liberal house leader Sébastien Proulx then waded in, accusing the government of “crushing” the dreams of many immigrants by refusing to process the 18,000 before the adoption of the reform package, Bill 9.
That won’t happen until June, which means three months of uncertainty and stress for people.
“How can you be more heartless than (former prime minister) Stephen Harper?” Proulx fired across the floor at Jolin-Barrette.
“I could present a litany of ways the Liberal Party hurt the population,” Jolin-Barrette responded.
Earlier, the association of lawyers working in immigration law also called on the government to unplug the shredding machine.
The Association québécoise des avocats et avocates en droit de l’immigration released a letter to Jolin-Barrette saying the people represented by those 18,000 files — including the estimated 5,500 already living, working and paying taxes in Quebec — deserve answers.
“It is time to reassure the thousands of persons and foresee changes to Bill 9,” states the letter, signed by 100 lawyers. It adds the government is deluding itself if it thinks the untested Arrima system will miraculously solve all the problems.
Arrima SystemS: Arrima is the portal dedicated to the Expression of Interest System (EIS). It is open to anyone 18 years of age and over who wants to immigrate to Québec under the Regular Skilled Worker Program.
The lawyers write that “18,000 files are ready and complete. All they are missing is the minister’s stamp to respond to the needs of entrepreneurs.
“Quebec’s international reputation will take a serious hit if this situation drags on.
“Instead of spending $19 million on the adminstrative fees necessary to get rid of thousands of files, would it not be more intelligent to spend the money fast-tracking them?”
如果18000名申请者的申请最终被作废，他们将会收到政府的退款。任何在2018年8月2日前做出的申请都会被作废。这其中的积案甚至长达14年之久。所有的退款将会达到1900万元。
反对党人士表示，这样的行为将会损害魁北克在国际当中的形象。这些信息给人们的信息十分负面。
9号法案依旧需要被省议会批准，目前，提出法案的执政党在议会当中占据多数席位。9号法案的提议也是在去年竞选时，CAQ党提出的主要政纲。
在去年12月，CAQ已经提出了减少接收移民的数量，在今年，魁北克省只会接收40000名移民。