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Quebec Immigration Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette announced Friday that the CAQ government’s proposed reforms to student immigration have been suspended.

“Over the past few days, different actors from the economic and education milieus have raised questions in connection with lists within the domain of training and (types of) employment that are in shortage. In order to reassure those actors, the Quebec government is announcing the temporary suspension of modifications to the Programme de l’expérience québécoise (PEQ),” the minister wrote in a statement posted on his Facebook page Friday evening.

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The decision followed a week in which the reputation of the CAQ government took a beating while it was described as being cruel and insensitive to students who were already in the program who would have been forced to leave the province. Forty-five international students came to the National Assembly to make an emotional appeal to the government to not drastically change a program they had already started.