Earlier this month, the Government of Québec announced that the Programme de l’expérience québécoise (PEQ) will officially be coming to an end on November 19th. The Programme de sélection des travailleurs qualifiés (PSTQ) will be the sole pathway to permanent residence for skilled workers. Several students and recent graduates spoke to the press and wrote articles about how the cancellation of the PEQ has disrupted their plans to settle in the province and left them feeling betrayed. In La Presse, Université du Québec à Montréal doctoral student Julian Ballester published an article about how he decided to study in QC because of the promise of the PEQ, while Université de Sherbrooke postdoctoral fellow Loïc Bizeul described the feeling of being pushed out of the province by QC’s decisions.
