Scores of students joined Quebec’s normally fractured opposition in condemning the government’s changes to the province’s immigration policy. (La Presse)

Talking point: Saying it was a victim of its own success, the government of François Legault recently and retroactively restricted access to Programme de l’expérience québécoise, which allowed certain students and temporary workers to fast-track their applications for a “Quebec Selection Certificate,” a necessary step toward earning permanent resident status in the province. As CBC Radio-Canada reported, thousands of immigrants already in Quebec said they felt betrayed by the government. Quebec’s three opposition parties warned the move will hamstring university recruitment and further exacerbate the province’s chronic labour shortage. Element AI co-founder Yoshua Bengio has also voiced concerns, saying the restriction can only hurt Montreal’s AI sector.