{"id":84002,"date":"2024-12-20T13:05:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T13:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=84002"},"modified":"2024-12-20T13:06:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T13:06:10","slug":"canada-expats-worried-as-quebec-freezes-immigration-programmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/canada-expats-worried-as-quebec-freezes-immigration-programmes\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada: Expats worried as Quebec freezes immigration programmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"x9b3mgs\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p><\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Canada, Quebec&#8217;s provincial government has just announced, without prior warning, a freeze on permanent immigration. Two major programmes are impacted: the Regular Skilled Worker Program (PRTQ) and the graduate component of the Quebec Experience Program (PEQ). The opposition is denouncing a &#8220;lack of planning&#8221;, while immigrant rights&#8217; organisations accuse the authorities of making thousands of qualified migrants pay the price for a lack of political foresight. FRANCE 24&#8217;s Francois Rihouay and Joanne Profeta report, with Fraser Jackson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1539],"tags":[155,35627],"class_list":["post-84002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-canada","tag-immigration-programmes","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}