Key Requests

Given the expertise of the Solutions Justes Legal Clinic and the Montreal Community Mission (MCM) in the context of Québec and Canadian immigration policy, as well as our deep understanding of the realities faced by immigrant and refugee populations in Québec, we prepared this brief to provide a constructive critique of the humanitarian policy outlined and proposed in the consultation paper developed by the Québec government, and to suggest concrete courses of action to advance Québec’s efforts in humanitarian law.

We aim to foster a thorough reflection on the need to move beyond the current system, which relies on underfunded community organizations to compensate for state shortcomings. Moreover, the priority given to temporary immigration at the expense of permanent immigration weakens and precarizes the individuals we support at the clinic. In addition, the concept of reception capacity is not adequately considered, as we will discuss below.

This brief seeks to contribute to a humanitarian approach by presenting informed and pragmatic recommendations, among others: