Quebec: Premier Pauline Marois

Premier Pauline Marois: Immigration Minister Diane De Courcy announced the reductions as she made public the governments immigration plan for the coming year, according to 660 News. About 55,000 immigrants came to Quebec in 2012, which the government of Premier Pauline Marois now believes is too many and QUEBEC The Quebec government, in the midst of a heated debate about minority accommodation, says it will lower its immigration targets so it can better integrate newcomers and ensure they are able to function in French. The previous Liberal government had already started to trim levels before the debate over the values charter, a still-unadopted plan to ban civil service employees from wearing obvious religious symbols such as the hijab. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.