Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good afternoon, Ms. Blanchard. I hope that you still speak French, given that you provide immigrants with settlement services.
We talked a lot about refugees earlier. You also said that retention rates for refugees have improved, but you did not provide any figures. We still see it as a problem. The president of the Chamber of Commerce suggested that Saskatchewan be targeted for immigration to a greater extent so that immigrants can in turn be directed to communities able to receive them. This targeting of regions or of countries could apply to refugees just as well as to immigrants.
At the same time, some participants have called for better collaboration between the federal government and the provinces. It looks like it is the provincial government's job to target regions appropriately so that newcomers are better integrated into your communities. I suppose that receiving refugees takes more staff, more effort and more time and if the refugees move on after six months or a year, it is seen as a great waste of everyone's energy.
Would you like to see the provincial government getting more involved in targeting newcomers in the province more effectively?