All universities must engage in international recruitment, as diverse views help conduct better research and create better training for Canadian and Quebec students. Universities are very rigorous in the analysis of files. We have grids and analytical tools that enable us to gauge the quality of students' initial training and to determine whether they could complete their studies at our university.
The fact that our universities must process a tremendous number of files to be able to welcome one student is a significant weight. The challenge of recruiting in French as much bigger for universities in our region. That is the case across Canada and, most certainly, in Quebec. The differences between McGill University and the UQTR or the UQAC, which you pointed out, are due to the fact that the recruitment pools are completely different. Anglophone universities do a lot of recruitment in India, and China and in Asia, where the acceptance rates are 90%. There is an absolutely phenomenal discrepancy.
Of course, we welcome students from Europe, which doesn't really lead to issues, but, at the UQTR, we first target the African pool, as we operate only in French. So that has a major impact.
We are making significant efforts to identify strong candidates in Africa. The analysis of their file requires a lot of work, but the outcomes are very disappointing. Nevertheless, we are managing to welcome an increasing number of those students.