Quebec Business: Provincial Government

Economic Policy Dept: problem: demographic declines and rapidly changing technologies are making it harder to find skilled and qualified workers, according to Montreal Gazette. The government is considering a reduction of eight per cent in the number of people annually admitted between now and 2015. And that's bad economic policy, according to Quebec business groups that presented briefs on the issue to the Liberal government and just about every advanced economy faces the same Quebec is no different - in fact, its demographic challenge is more acute than in many other societies. One way to rectify the problem is to encourage more people to move here. But at a time when the provincial government should be boosting immigration, it's doing the opposite. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.