> > As for Quebec's control over immigration policy, what does it
> > actually amount to? E.g., can Quebec accept immigrants who wouldn't
> > be qualified to immigrate into the rest of Canada? Canada has a
> > system called "Provincial Nomination," but Quebec isn't listed in
> the
> > Provincial Nomination page: <http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/skilled/
> > provnom/index.html>.
>
> Yes Quebec is not listed because quebec has full control over
> immigration whereas the other provinces share jurisdiction with the
> Feds. Formally speaking so does quebec but the Feds have devolved
> their responsibility to Quebec in an atttempt to appease
> Francaphone concerns.
>
> Travis
It would be tough for Quebec to entice Francophone immigrants, however hard it tried. France is closer to North Africa (where the largest number of French-speaking would-be emigrants must be found, since that's where France had the strongest colonial presence) than Canada is. The only people for whom Quebec would be among the top destinations are probably Haitians: "The trend of French-speaking Haitian immigrants to Canada was to settle in Québec -- 95% of them. By 1965, some 2,000 Haitians had arrived. . . . From 1973 to 1976 an average of approximately 3,000 Haitians were admitted to Canada each year, with a peak of 4,750 in 1974. The settlement of Haitians in Canada by the end of the exodus was estimated to have reached 20,000" (at <http://www.whitepinepictures.com/seeds/ii/26/ history2.html>).
Yoshie Furuhashi <http://montages.blogspot.com> <http://monthlyreview.org> <http://mrzine.org> * Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: <http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/07/mahmoud- ahmadinejads-face.html>; <http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/07/chvez- congratulates-ahmadinejad.html>; <http://montages.blogspot.com/ 2005/06/iranian-working-class-rejects.html>