Merci, Monsieur le Président.
I'd like to welcome you to Ottawa, although this is not the first time you've been here.
First of all, let me say that I am fully endorsing the requests you have made to this committee on the three points--the comparative services for refugees, the study on refugee and immigrant children and youth, and the indicators for smaller cities in Canada.
To my first question, perhaps you would give me a fairly short answer, because I do have other questions. My question has to do with these three points, in particular the smaller cities in Canada. This is a big problem, which every province is dealing with. For instance, how do you manage to get people to come to your province or to the smaller towns in your province? Once they are there, how do you manage to retain them, not have them leave? Do you have any suggestions on how we're going to do this? I know you've suggested that we do a study, but on the other hand, very often the people who ask these things usually have some suggestions.
Again, I'd really appreciate a short answer on this. I do have two more questions.