options for a young french professional to work in quebec?

[saka68]

hi all,

posting this on behalf of a dear friend. i wanted to get more insight from this forum on what they should do: what visa would be the most painless/fast and applicable to them. in respect for their privacy otherwise I will keep to the essentials:

1. they are a french citizen
2. they are under 30
3. they are highly educated in their field (architecture) and have experience.
4. they want to continue their career and professional development in Canada, specifically in quebec.
5. they have an employer in quebec that wants to hire them and has given them a job offer, so long as they have a valid visa to work.
6. their employer has not dealt with visa stuff before so is relying on my friend to guide them

they have considered filling out a LIMA (which will take quite a bit of time, and their employer has to pay 1k and they will need to wait) and then getting a work permit. this will take time and money. they have applied to the holiday working visa but that has an insanely slow pool selection and invitation rate.
what can they do, what visas/streams should they look into? we looked at the "Young Professionals" stream (related to International Experience Canada), but it's not clear if this would be LIMA excempt or not?

it's bizarre because quebec's rhetoric always wants more francophone talent, but this friend of mine has been in a limbo struggling. when we call immigration Canada for questions, it's always so unhelpful and unclear.

anyone have any thoughts/suggestions? their potential employer also doesn't want to wait forever.