Makes sense. It's just going to continue to grow unless the Quebec government removes or significantly increases the caps. Such a crappy situation.
When I spoke to MiFi, they were very matter of fact about saying that they expected it to go over 36 months before it gets better. To be honest, if we hadn't been waiting for almost 2 years at this point, I'd be looking to change province and I'll tell anyone sponsoring a family member to steer clear of Quebec. Which is exactly what the Quebec govt wants.
The CAQ are really pushing the "anglo immigration is ruining quebec" rhetoric nowadays. Quebec City and Montreal are still ok, but we live further out and I'm finding that my english accent is becoming a real problem for some people. At first, the govt said that it was fine as long as we could speak French. Nowadays, just learning french isn't enough, they only want native francophones because "people speaking english at home is destroying Quebec".
There's a huge labour shortage here - Quebec desperately needs immigrants. The teacher shortage is so bad thousands of classrooms are being taught by unqualified classroom assistants. The healthcare sector lost 20,000 workers over the last couple of years and haven't been able to replace them. On top of this, there's a general labour shortage of about 18,000 workers per year. Every other province is increasing immigration to address shortages but Quebec has drastically reduced immigration and is imposing even stricter conditions for visas. Honestly, it's starting to feel like the govt doesn't care if the province fails - as long as it fails in French.
They're not going to do anything to reduce waiting times because they've made it very clear they don't want us here. The long processing time isn't a bug - it's a feature.