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Federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Tuesday that he was “fed up with people always blaming immigrants for absolutely everything,” after Quebec Premier François Legault attributed “100 per cent of the housing problem” to the rising number of people arriving on a temporary basis. Questioned on his way out of a cabinet meeting about Legault’s comments, Miller was careful to direct his apparent exasperation at “people.” “The increase in mortgages, the price of mortgages, has nothing to do with immigrants,” he said.

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/miller-fed-up-with-people-always-blaming-immigrants-after-legault-s-housing-comments-1.6922316

Le gouvernement fédéral ne fait pas de favoritisme, répond Ottawa au premier ministre de la Colombie-Britannique, David Eby, qui n’a pas caché son agacement de voir que de l’argent fédéral destiné à l’immigration était « déversé » sur l’Ontario et le Québec, « au mépris » de l’Ouest canadien.Il n’y a pas de province chouchou pour le gouvernement fédéral qui distribue les fonds de manière équitable, a assuré la ministre du Patrimoine canadien, Pascale St-Onge, mardi à son arrivée à la réunion hebdomadaire du conseil des ministres, en reprenant le mot de la question d’une journaliste. David Eby est contrarié après le versement de 750 millions de dollars d’Ottawa au Québec pour l’aider à payer l’augmentation du nombre de résidents temporaires dans la province.

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2079863/immigration-temporaire-aide-federal-ouest

This temporary public policy intends to facilitate access to education systems and the Canadian labour market for the eligible foreign national family members of Canadian citizens or permanent residents who have left Israel or the Palestinian Territories as a result of the crisis in the region. This includes those that have been or will be part of the assisted departures organized by the Government of Canada. Once in Canada, foreign nationals eligible under this public policy may apply for fee-exempt status extensions, study permits and/or open work permits. Facilitating access to the labour market will enable foreign nationals who are in Canada under a temporary status to better support themselves in Canada while the crisis in Israel and the Palestinian Territories is ongoing.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/mandate/policies-operational-instructions-agreements/public-policies/israel-palestinian-territories-family-2023-extension.html

The 2024 federal budget’s promise to reduce “temporary immigration” could reduce the number of temporary foreign workers available to Canadian agriculture and agricultural businesses. The document states the government “will reduce the share of temporary residents in Canada to five per cent of the total population over the next three years,” which it estimates will result in approximately 600,000 fewer temporary residents compared to current levels. An internal briefing note from the Canadian Mushroom Growers’ Association states that Canada has “more than 807,000 international students on permits who live in urban areas,” citing data from Statistics Canada. StatCan also lists the total number of TFWs in agricultural industries in 2023 at approximately 70,000.

https://www.albertafarmexpress.ca/news/agriculture-industry-wary-of-federal-immigration-plan/

B.C. Premier David Eby was “confused” about the facts when he criticized the federal government this week for giving Quebec $750 million to manage asylum seekers, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Tuesday.  “I think perhaps there is some confusion on the premier’s behalf as to what this money was for. The suggestion was it was for temporary residents. That is absolutely not the case,” Miller said in Ottawa. The funding is “to compensate Quebec for two fiscal years of costs they’ve incurred for the disproportionate flow of asylum seekers,” Miller added. “I think perhaps he was confused about what the money was for.”

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/marc-miller-eby-immigration-funding-quebec-1.7231656