Aug 14, 2019 – Quebec business owners have urged the provincial government to increase immigration immediately to help ease a chronic labour shortage.

Lobby group Conseil du patronat du Quebec says more immigrants are needed to avoid slowing the French-speaking province's economy.

Quebec's historic low unemployment rate of 4.9 per cent is indicative of the struggle employers face with finding the right people to fill vacancies.

But the provincial government, the Coalition Avenir Quebec, plans to reduce immigration by 20 per cent to around 40,000 newcomers in 2019, with small annual increases thereafter.

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