Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
During Question Period on immigration, the Bloc Québécois raised problems faced by Quebec businesses trying to renew work permits for temporary foreign workers. Maxime Blanchette-Joncas said a lack of coordination between two government departments causes permits to be cancelled because one department’s processing takes longer than the deadline the other imposes, and asked the government to extend deadlines and reopen mistakenly closed files for free. Joël Lightbound, responding for the Liberals, said the government recognizes Quebec’s reliance on temporary foreign workers and pointed to measures extending work permits by a year, with spouses also eligible, and said processing times for these requests had been extended to 90 days.Written by AI from the debate. Updated .
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