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QUEBEC — The Legault and Trudeau governments will continue to try to work together, at least on questions of immigration.

On Thursday, a second private meeting took place in Quebec City between the new Quebec immigration minister, Simon Jolin-Barrette, and federal intergovernmental affairs minister Dominic LeBlanc.

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Behind closed doors, the two discussed the prickly issue of annual immigration quotas, which the Quebec government is looking to reduce and the federal government looking to raise.

The government of François Legault needs the federal government to cooperate to reduce the number of immigrants admitted to Quebec annually from 52,000 to 40,000 in 2019.

Jolin-Barrette, who will present his immigration plan by Dec. 7, wants Quebec to take over the family reunification program now administered by Ottawa and which sees 10,000 people admitted to Quebec annually.

Currently, Quebec manages only economic migrants.