No one questions the right of these people to move within Canada. That's not the issue.gobsmack wrote: ↑30 Jan 2018 08:51 My understanding is that the number of applications accepted every year is small: http://www.immigration-quebec.gouv.qc.c ... dures.html. If the article claims that 46,000 of them have left QC, a lot these people could have immigrated a long time ago. Perhaps they even became citizens before moving out of Quebec. We cannot deny Canadian citizens the right to move within the country.
In the case of people who are truly wealthy, there is very little reason to break the law. They have so many options to legally immigrate to North America and Europe. I just do not understand why anyone in this position would break the law given that they would be risking a lot for very little reward. Why would they risk their legal status for the privilege of living in Vancouver, for instance? Is Vancouver that much better than Montreal?
This is the real issue:
Gordon described the QIIP as a “farce,” saying that Quebec benefits from the program while other jurisdictions incur the costs of hosting wealthy immigrants in their provinces.
“The Quebec government receives an interest-free loan, while the house price pressures and the social service costs of supporting investor immigrant families, who have historically paid low amounts of tax, falls on British Columbia and Ontario,” he said.