Quebec ought to purpose to welcome 100,000 immigrants per 12 months, in line with the Conseil du patronat (CPQ).
The quantity is sort of twice the edge set by the Quebec authorities.
The CPQ made the request in a white paper on immigration made public Monday.
A bit of over every week in the past, the Conseil du patronat, together with employer organizations, had as a substitute urged a threshold of 80,000 newcomers per 12 months to alleviate labour shortages.
However in its white paper, the CPQ now believes that Quebec ought to ideally purpose for 100,000 immigrants.
In line with current information, there are at least 240,000 positions to be stuffed all through Quebec. The financial group is pushing the Legault authorities to confess extra immigrants.
Regardless of the federal government's present efforts to fill jobs, practically 1 / 4 of the present vacancies can't be stuffed, which represents 300,000 jobs over the following 5 years, the CPQ calculates.
Immigration is "each unavoidable and absolutely vital," the employers' group argues.
-- This report by The Canadian Press was first printed in French on Could 16, 2022.
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