BBC is a known for its India bashing. This article has no depth and is conjuring up some kind of conspiracy theory. HN quality is going down the drain.
The BBC is known to write about ex-colonies with a certain level of contempt.
There is a thinly veiled nostalgia about British superiority and to an extent still consider the subcontinent to be some sort of 'unfinished work' that still requires 'civilizing'.
I have noticed a similar sentiment among French and Belgian people about their colonies, but I haven't read enough of their media or politics to know how pervasive it is.
I got the Covid-19 care guide in my mail box by the Québec government in French only because of Bill 101. Language politics trumps even in case of emergency communications in Québec.
I would never buy anything from this sort of site especially if done by the Québec government. They should try to fix their Senior Home Covid-19 situation due to lack of healthcare workers because of their absurd healthcare system rules unlike rest of Canada. The premier of Quebec CAQ govt. is populist and wants to throw some raw meat to his voter base. The next one will be immigrant bashing.
These two issues are orthogonal. But thank you for taking the time to do your usual Québec bashing which you always seem to love doing when you get the chance.
I am a part of a group (immigrant) which Québec CAQ politicians likes to bash/scapegoat when they get the chance. So let me bash them here when I get the chance. Thank you for noticing and sorry if you got butt hurt being a Quebecois.
Québec must learn to walk before they run. Have you seen their Panier Bleu site ? I might as well use yellow pages instead of that.
Yes of course being of the HN crowd I’m not impressed by the website. You know, all quebeckers share the passion of complaining about our government ;)
I totally have the opposite experience in Québec. Everywhere and anything in Québec feels red taped and low of customer service. Maybe I have to speak French. Speaking in English and being non white gets a degraded service in Québec.
"good service" is a bad sign for society. Americans have "good service" because low income workers are one insane customer away from their lives tipping over the edge.
Americans also complain about service in Europe, where workers are also not treating each customer interaction as a make or break situation.
Depends where you are in Quebec though, downtown Montreal, TMR, West Island, gay village, plateau probably fine. East end, you're going to have some troubles there bisdy
Yes. Nowadays I exclusively shop & eat around these areas. But by next year I will be saying Quebec goodbye for good. Its not just businesses here, the govt services and the police too. I am not going to fund them with my tax dollars.
Skilled immigration to Canada via Québec takes 3 years in the fastest category. In other categories it takes 4 to 6 years. Immigration to the rest of Canada takes only 6 months via Express Entry.
Québec's immigration system is the slowest, red taped and infamous for its bureaucracy and mismanagement.
They can't even get a grip on senior home issues with Covid-19 let alone have an online local shopping site. The province's bureaucracy has no limits.
Not in Quebec. The healthcare system in Quebec is in ruins with extended wait times and walk in clinics turn off walk ins frequently. Nurses & Doctor shortages are acute in Quebec to the point that retired nurses are being asked if they could come back to work.
Stressful times for temporary skilled foreign workers in Canada & international students on study permits.
Foreign worker visa extension delays and loss of work visa status will happen. Also those who applied for permanent residency while working in Canada are going to see long wait times.
Chrystia Freeland diplomatically dodged questions concerning the work permit holders & international students in Canada when asked by a reporter.
Canada and especially Québec should do this too. Québec has a lottery system for visas. First come first serve. Rest of Canada has a points based system but is being played by low skilled workers.
It's funny, since the 'first come first serve' idea has been struck down in the US as being inhumane, and has been seen this way for decades by most of the people that work inside the American political system.
> Rest of Canada has a points based system but is being played by low skilled workers.
Same in Australia, so many "skilled" workers that are driving taxis, driving uber eats, working in 711, doing tier 1 tech support, etc. It's a good idea in theory but the implementation is horrible, especially when there is high youth un/under employment. It get's even worse when you combine it with the "education" paper mill industry.
>Rest of Canada has a points based system but is being played by low skilled workers.
It's not being played by low skilled workers. It's being played by wage suppressing mega-cops such as Tim Hortons and McDonalds and low skilled migrants from places like India are unsurprisingly jumping at the opportunity to get out.
There was a Wendys recruitment drive in India some years back. The reason behind that was they could not find restaurant workers in Wendys Alberta. I find it very hard to believe they could not find local Canadian workers.
That points system is not followed at all. Québec immigration department is one such department in Québec which needs a thorough investigation on their practices and selection criteria. Low skilled workers from France is given undue priority in the name of language without any other employable merits.
The truth is it's not implemented yet though they say it is. Anyone that I know of are still waiting on the Québec immigration department to process their files for the past one year in the regular skilled worker category.
I agree, I know some french people who can't get a visa in a reasonable amount of time (I would not wait for more than 3-4 months myself) despite being in a sector with shortages of workers. It makes no sense to me, especially from a government that pretends to be aligned with the needs of businesses.
The “global talent” thing is weird, in that the main website talks a big game, but the fine print reveals that it only covers a few very specific jobs. Neither my wife nor I qualified (PhD researchers in ‘hot’ fields) but video game artists apparently do.
Can you please stop using HN for ideological battle? You've done it repeatedly lately, and we ban such accounts. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and using the site in the intended spirit, we'd appreciate it.
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