Premier François Legault says Quebec is saying no to the Century Initiative, a plan by an influential lobby group to increase Canada’s population to 100 million by 2100.

Legault said Tuesday that he was opposed to the plan, which seems to have the ear of the federal government. A motion was also unanimously adopted in this sense.

Either we choose to raise our immigration thresholds to between 120,000 and 150,000 per year to try to maintain Quebec’s proportion [of immigration to Canada], which means the decline of the French language and an acute housing crisis … or we choose thresholds based on our capacity to receive, which means a significant drop in Quebec’s political weight in Canada, possibly below 15 per cent,” the PQ leader said.

“It is “a big Caquist lie” to fixate on a threshold of permanent immigration to 50,000, as advocated by the Legault government, without taking into account the temporary immigration that explodes well beyond the capacity of reception of Quebec,” said Derraji.

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THE CURRENT POPULATION OF CANADA IS 38,781,291 — A 100M TARGET WOULD BE A 250% INCREASE