“Unacceptable”, “disrespectful”, “ridiculous”… the deputy leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP), Alexandre Boulerice, does not mince words about the Department of Immigration of Canada, which comes to curb the Francophone immigration to Quebec, according to him.
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“The Department of Immigration has been a disaster for two years. You can feel it in the constituency office. The prioritization of Francophones put forward by the Government of Quebec is not respected by Ottawa”, denounced in an interview with the Newspaper Alexandre Boulerice, deputy leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP).
“It is unacceptable as a treatment. It is disrespectful towards these people from a human point of view and ridiculous from an economic point of view in shortage of manpower, ”he added.
Yesterday, the Minister of Immigration, Francisation and Integration Jean Boulet, denounced to the Newspaper the slowness of the federal government, which is slow to accept French-speaking immigrants already chosen by Quebec.
However, for Alexandre Boulerice, the Legault government is right to stamp its foot.
“I do not always agree with Jean Boulet, but on this issue, he is perfectly right,” he said.
“There is a big problem at Immigration Canada with services in French in general. The minister himself made an announcement just in English. The workers hired in Montreal recently were mostly unilingual Anglophones,” he lamented.
“Case by case”
The last days, The newspaper asked IRCC whether delays in responding to French-speaking applicants can be explained by the lack of French-speaking employees in the department.
“The wait time varies from one application to another, but it is comparable for French-speaking and English-speaking applicants,” said Isabelle Dubois, spokesperson for the Immigration Department, noting that the department will adopt a working environment to promote faster processing of requests.
At Newspapershe added that applications from all over the world “are examined in a uniform way and according to the same criteria, regardless of the country of origin”.
“Requests are assessed on a case-by-case basis. These decisions are made by highly trained officers who carefully and systematically assess each application against the same criteria as set out in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act“, she concluded.
Reference-www.journaldemontreal.com