Immigration lawyers are seeking an injunction that would force the Quebec government to delay its plan to cancel 18,000 immigration applications. "This refusal to process applications in inventory is devastating," reads the injunction filed Wednesday morning in the Quebec Superior Court by an association of Quebec immigration lawyers — the AQAADI. The applicants "feel humiliated, betrayed and abandoned by the minister and the Quebec government," the group says. The AQAADI is taking aim at Bill 9, announced by Immigration Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette on Feb. 7, which will cancel 18,139 untreated immigration files under the skilled workers program (PRTQ). Guillaume Cliche-Rivard is president of the AQAADI, the group of lawyers taking aim at Quebec's newly announced immigration plan.

Source: CBC News February 20, 2019 15:43 UTC