Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is rewriting the rules of its economic immigration system to favour foreign workers in well-paid occupations, allowing employers to bypass looking at the Canadian talent pool first. Returning to a merit-based point system for high-skilled immigrants is a shift economists have long urged after years of high-volume, low-wage intake, but the latest policy change could cause controversy with Canadians given current polling trends.
What Carney tells reporters in French "We want to arrive at sustainable immigration levels. Well, we’ll see"
"Quebec is distinct, it’s unique because of its culture, its language and other aspects of its nature. So it’s appropriate in the case of Quebec." @MarkJCarney https://t.co/OHmJtP1Rai
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) October 21, 2026
