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Paul St. Pierre Plamondon, Quebec’s new premier-designate, is about to shake up Canada’s immigration debate. Like most Quebec politicians, PSPP, as he is known, doesn’t buy into the accepted wisdom of Canada’s Laurentian elite that ever-expanding immigration numbers are good for the country.

LILLEY: PSPP is about to blow up Canada’s immigration consensus Back to video

For the most part, Quebec politicians, at the provincial level anyway, tend to favour a more restrictive approach to immigration. This is part of the province’s overarching ethos of protecting its unique culture.

As federal Liberal governments have pushed immigration numbers higher, Quebec has pushed back. In older comments in English that recently resurfaced after the election, PSPP explains that he believes the Liberals were wrong to do what they did and even ties them to the Century Initiative.

The Century Initiative is a not-for-profit group, mostly made up of big business types, that believes Canada should increase its population to 100 million by the year 2100 to become a stronger country economically.

The Liberals in Ottawa have long denied that they are........

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