I'm going to read from a press release here. It's in English.
A program that assists businesses in minority francophone communities outside Quebec hire temporary foreign workers is to close after September 30. The French Significant Benefit Program allowed employers to recruit internationally without needing to apply for a Labour Market Impact Assessment, which entails job advertising obligations and strict auditing of the business making the application to hire foreign workers on temporary work permits. Workers brought to Canada under this LMIA-exempt program then had the option of staying in Canada permanently if they fulfilled the criteria of one of the federal immigration programs, such as the Canadian Experience Class. “This is unquestionably a big setback for francophone immigration”, said Gilles Benoit, president of the Coopérative d’intégration francophone de l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard.
Has this cut to this program affected either of you, and how?