CSN calls on QC to implement grandfather clause for those affected by PEQ

The Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN), a confederation of over 1,600 unions across Québec, has called on the Government of Québec to protect workers who are affected by the closure of the Programme de l’expérience québécoise (PEQ). The PEQ offered a fast track to permanent residence. City News reports that approximately 25 professors from the Université du Québec à Montréal may have to leave the province as a result of the PEQ closure. CSN hopes that the province will introduce a grandfather clause to protect those who already had a temporary immigration permit at the time of the closure. The PEQ has been replaced by a new skilled workers program that will reportedly accept 29,000 permanent residents this year.