Mr. Chair, please consider that the request was made and then accepted by the department.
Minister, when he appeared before the committee, Dominic Barton very clearly stated that the issue of immigrants' integration and linguistic integration into Quebec society was never part of his considerations on the various committees tasked with setting immigration targets.
Unsurprisingly, in a stunning coincidence, your targets happen to be the same as Dominic Barton's. I, for one, don't believe in coincidence, but you certainly seem to.
We'd asked, through a question on the Order Paper, whether you'd commissioned any studies into the effects of your new targets on the French language in Quebec.
You refused to produce any study into the effects of your immigration targets on the French language. Why is that?