{"id":535485,"date":"2026-03-14T08:04:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T08:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/535485\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T08:04:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T08:04:44","slug":"ottawa-grants-12-month-permit-extension-for-quebec-permanent-resident-applicants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/535485\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa grants 12-month permit extension for Quebec permanent resident applicants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government has agreed to Quebec&#8217;s demand to extend temporary work permits for skilled workers while the province processes their permanent residency applications.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Lightbound, federal minister and the prime minister&#8217;s Quebec lieutenant, said today Ottawa will extend the permits for up to 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the extension, however, Lightbound said temporary foreign workers are not a sustainable solution to the country&#8217;s labour shortages.<\/p>\n<p>Lightbound, minister of government transformation, public works and procurement, says extensions are only available to people who have already applied to be permanent residents in Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>Quebec Immigration Minister Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Roberge said on social media that the federal government has only responded partially to Quebec&#8217;s requests.<\/p>\n<p>Roberge says Quebec has called on Ottawa to extend temporary permits for all foreign workers in the province outside Montreal and its northern suburb Laval.<\/p>\n<p>Business groups in Quebec say Ottawa&#8217;s move is a step in the right direction but not enough to address the province&#8217;s labour needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-535485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}