Cabinet Shuffle: Immigration

Haitian Immigrants Dept: In the end, 8,300 Haitians applied under the humanitarian program, created thanks to a bilateral immigration agreement with Ottawa. But by Oct. 6, only 18 of them had arrived in Quebec, according to Montreal Gazette. Days after the earthquake, Haitians with Canadian citizenship, holders of immigrant or visitors' visas living in Haiti and in some cases, but not all, their relatives were allowed to come to Quebec. The total number of Haitian immigrants to Quebec in 2010 was 3,310 -an increase of more than 80 per cent from 2009 and after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, killing 250,000 people and leaving more than one million homeless, Quebec's then-immigration minister Yolande James announced the province would accept 3,000 Haitians who are not normally eligible to immigrate to Quebec as a "humanitarian measure." Kathleen Weil, named immigration minister in an August cabinet shuffle, said in an interview before Christmas the number of humanitarian arrivals had grown to 52. The latest figure is 389. As reported in the news.
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