CAQ Leadership Race: Immigration Clash Over Quebec Experience Program

0:00It's April 1st, from your city to your ears. This is Canada News Today, powered by AI. I'm Cory with the story. Tensions are boiling in the CAQ leadership race between Bernard Drainville and Christine Fraschet, all over how many permanent residents they'd let. And through the Quebec Experience Program, Drainville's straight-up called her out for saying the opposite of the truth on those numbers. Fraschet wants to bring back the PEQ for two years as a grandfather clause for folks already in Quebec when it shut down. A report from La Presse says that could mean anywhere from $123,800 to $126,800. Hundred new permanent residents. Drainville fired back during their second debate, pushing his own limited version that immigration ministers Jean-François Robert's Pégdez, just $18,000. He accused her of hiding massive numbers because they tank her campaign if they came out wrong. Fraschet clapped back on social media, insisting she's always been clear and will stick

1:01to the annual cap of 45,000 immigrants if she wins. She stressed it would be first come, first served, until that limit hits, so not everyone gets in. With 20,600 CAQ members voting soon for the next leader, this immigration clash is front and center, shaping up the path to Quebec's premier ship.