Legault wants full immigration powers

François Legault is to meet Justin Trudeau on Friday and demand complete control over immigration. I was struck how a government spox was saying, in audio on CBC radio, that Quebec simply had no capacity for more asylum seekers, and that it wanted a billion dollars from Ottawa, with no strings attached.

Nobody was talking about the surge in temporary workers, which doesn’t seem to be a problem, although the CAQ would like to force them to speak French. But if you bring people in, work them hard while denying them citizenship, you can’t expect them to feel like bons québécois and start speaking French in six months.

In retrospect, our treatment of temporary workers is going to be one of the shames of our era. That, and crapping relentlessly on the environment in the name of profit.

Update: Trudeau said no.