Hey!
Yeah, i think you may have misread it hehe.
Immigration for Quebec is lines 105-129 of the spreadsheet...QSW is line 108 (regardless of regular or PEQ)
For 2015 (column U), 24 480 were processed, plus 5 420 for the business program, for a total of 29 900 economic immigrants for the province
For 2016 (column AL), it was 26 970 and 4 635 for a total of 31 605. These values fit well with the province's economic yearly immigration targets
For 2017 so far (until august), it has been 19 075 for the QSW and 3 870 for the business program for a total of 22 945 economic immigrants
This is still far from the yearly goal, so we can expect anywhere between 8 000 to 10 000 new admissions for the rest of the year... And that's the thing. I believe the spreadsheet counts people ADMITTED as PRs... which i would interpret as landed immigrants. Therefore, many of these people could have actually gotten DM and CoPR during 2016 and only landed in 2017 (for whatever reason). If that is the case, CIC must try to "predict" how many more people from those that have CoPR might "land" from now until the rest of the year.. this could help them set a target for how many more cases to finish processing this year. Let's not forget that the government has a target, with a both a lower and upper limit.
I want to believe that there may be a surge in DM and PPR over the coming weeks as they are going to try to meet the yearly target (which is around 30 000 economic immigrants for Quebec).
What do you think,
@APPNOV2014NY ??