The Law Commission of Canada (LCC) is pleased to announce the publication of its first Beyond Tomorrow Report "Beyond Tomorrow on Immigration: Legal Impacts of the Canada-Québec Accord relating to Immigration and Temporary Admission of Aliens for Federal and Québec Immigration Law and the International Student Program".
Commissioned and published by the LCC on a periodic basis, the Beyond Tomorrow Reports series identifies and addresses challenges and issues in law for Canada's next generation and beyond. Authors reflect on law's influence and impact with respect to the building and strengthening of communities. Reports draw on critical informed research, and incorporate collaborative engagement with community-based actors, to imagine and articulate constructive possibilities and perspectives for law reform in the future.
In this Beyond Tomorrow Report, author France Houle explores tensions within Canada's immigration system, by tracing the evolution of Québec's immigration regime and the legal, political, and institutional foundations governing the allocation of immigration responsibilities between Canada and Québec -explaining how Quebec evolved from having a consultative role to genuine decision-making authority over the selection of economic immigrants to the province and examining why this two-level governance model has struggled to keep pace with the rapid growth of temporary migration.
The Report includes a case study of the development, implementation, and eventual breakdown of Quebec's International Student Program, which highlights "the limits of a system characterized by the coexistence of ill-defined objectives between the governments of Canada and Québec in the area of temporary immigration."
The author of the report, France Houle, is a Full Professor and past Dean at the Université de Montréal Faculty of Law. She has particular expertise in immigration law and regulatory processes and previously worked as legal counsel for the Immigration and Refugee Board.
The report is now available on the LCC website.
