{"id":95932,"date":"2022-02-28T10:05:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T15:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/quebec-investing-65m-to-recruit-nurses-from-francophone-countries"},"modified":"2024-01-04T12:07:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T17:07:08","slug":"quebec-investing-65m-to-recruit-nurses-from-francophone-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/quebec-investing-65m-to-recruit-nurses-from-francophone-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec Investing $65M To Recruit Nurses From Francophone Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"p1\">Quebec is plunking down $65 million for an initiative to recruit 1,000 foreign-trained nurses from francophone countries over the next two years, says provincial Immigration Minister Jean Boulet.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI am very proud to announce this project to recruit nurses which is part of our action plan to recognize the foreign credentials of immigrants,\u201d said Boulet.<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Read More<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/quebec-application-window-closes-for-refugee-collective-sponsorship-program\/\">Quebec Application Window Closes For Refugee Collective Sponsorship Program<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/quebec-invites-523-canada-immigration-candidates-in-largest-arrima-draw-of-2022\/\"><span class=\"s3\">Quebec Invites 523 Canada Immigration Candidates In Largest Arrima Draw Of 2022<\/span><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/ottawa-quebec-agree-on-need-to-speed-up-processing-of-canada-immigration-applications\/\"><span class=\"s3\">Ottawa, Quebec Agree On Need To Speed Up Processing Of Canada Immigration Applications<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThis project will allow us to speed up our international recruitment efforts and the recognition of the credentials of these nurses who will quickly help resolve labour shortages in our health network and social services.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">The immigration minister says the initiative will include settlement services to help newcomers integrate into Quebecois society and the provincial labour force.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Quebec Recruiting Nurse From Francophone Countries<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThis is a win-win for Quebec and for skilled immigrants who are ready to lend their skills to improve our health network,\u201d he said in French.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">Quebec is hoping to recruit these nurses from the heavily-francophone countries of Algeria, Cameroon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Mauritius Island and have them work in the outlying areas of the province, including the Abitibi-T\u00e9miscamingue, C\u00f4te-Nord, Bas-Saint-Laurent, Gasp\u00e9sie, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Baie James and Outaouais regions.<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Watch Video<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kosXiqfsKCg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">Successful candidates will be paid $500 weekly for up to a year during their training at a local CEGEP, a community college in Quebec, while they work to get their credentials recognized by Quebec\u2019s Order of Nurses.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">While in school for those nine months to a year, the candidates will also be allowed to work as nurses\u2019 aides for up to 20 hours per week while in training and full-time during school holidays.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">The cost of the program is being covered by Quebec\u2019s immigration department, the Ministre de l&rsquo;Immigration, de la Francisation et de l&rsquo;Int\u00e9gration (MIFI).<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">This immigration program doesn\u2019t just allow the prospective nurses to come to Quebec. It also allows them to bring their spouses, who will be given <a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/open-work-permit-in-canada\/\"><span class=\"s3\">open work permits<\/span><\/a>, and their children.<\/p>\r\n<h3 class=\"p1\">Quebec and Ottawa Working To Speed Up Processing Times<\/h3>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">Education Minister Danielle McCann said the new immigration initiative will allow the province to quickly boost the number of healthcare workers in Quebec.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">The first group of nurses to come to Quebec are expected to arrive this autumn with more settling in the province throughout 2023.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">During the past year, Quebec has become even more bullish on immigration as a means to resolve its massive labour shortages.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">Earlier this year, Boulet echoed the sentiment of his predecessor as immigration minister, Nadine Girault, who described Ottawa\u2019s processing times for immigration applications \u201cdeplorable\u201d last year.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">According to the new immigration minister in Quebec, the Canadian government still has a long way to go when it comes to its processing times for applications for economic immigration and study permits for international students.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">The processing times for applications for permanent residency in Quebec were reported last year as being more than two years long, 27 months, compared six months in the rest of the country. The situation was also getting worse, not better.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">In 2019, the processing time for applications to Quebec was 19 months.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">Last month, Canada\u2019s new immigration minister, Sean Fraser, took action on the file and met with Boulet. Although no details of the outcome of that meeting have been released, the Quebec politician described it earlier this month on Twitter as a \u201cgood meeting\u201d.<\/p>\r\n<h3 class=\"p1\">Immigration To Quebec Outstrips Pre-Pandemic Levels<\/h3>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI reminded him that Ottawa must speed up the process of admitting economic immigrants selected by Quebec and the issuance of study permits for francophone international students,\u201d tweeted Boulet in French. \u201cMy counterpart has assured me of the cooperation of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">Canada\u2019s immigration minister also expressed hope following the meeting.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cCanada and Quebec are continuing to work together to move forward on our joint priorities,\u201d tweeted Fraser. \u201cCanada is committed to protecting the French language by welcoming more francophone immigrants to Quebec and the rest of the country.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">The most recent IRCC data shows immigration to Quebec almost doubled last year compared to 2020.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">As Canada rolled out its vaccine program and put in vaccine passports at the border to allow international travel to resume, Quebec welcomed 50,170 new permanent residents in 2021 compared to only 25,225 the previous year when the COVID-19 pandemic slowed immigration to Canada to a trickle.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">Despite successive waves of COVID-19 affecting Canada, Quebec\u2019s boom in immigration allowed it to welcome almost 23.7 per cent more new permanent residents last year than the 40,565 that arrived in 2019, the last full year before the pandemic.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec Investing $65M To Recruit Nurses From Francophone Countries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}