My next question deals with immigration. What are you doing? I ask this question at nearly every meeting. We do not have much trouble attracting immigrants to the Acadian Peninsula. The problem is that our people immigrate and go to Moncton. That is our biggest problem. In the Moncton region, there are 20 francophones and 46 individuals who speak both languages. We do not have figures for the anglophones. As for the francophones, let us look at what is happening in the Atlantic provinces.
In Halifax, for instance, we are told that there are 18 francophones and 138 individuals speaking both languages. That is not very much for the Atlantic provinces. The francophones do not count for very much. What has happened on the francophone side?
With all due respect, I am proud of that. The figures for Quebec are not even included. I think that we need to have these figures so that we can understand the situation in Quebec. We have nothing about Quebec.
When we visit our embassies abroad, we try to found out what you are doing to encourage francophones to go to Canada. I do not see any mechanisms that have been set up. In some countries, in some of our embassies, there is not even any information available in French. What does the Department of Immigration have to say about that? We have been talking about this matter for a very long time. I personally have been asking this question of Immigration Canada for the past five or six years as part of our committee work.
I understand the people from Quebec. If they go to France, to Africa or certain key areas, they are not going to want to encourage immigrants to settle in Moncton. They will try to convince them to settle in Montreal or Quebec City. Do we have anything to counteract that? One would think that you are satisfied with having Quebec look after the francophones and having the anglophones go to the rest of Canada, to Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg and elsewhere. That is borne out by the statistics.