It is important to forge alliances with communities within Quebec. Of course, even today, to some degree, that happens naturally. When people immigrate to Quebec, just like in every province and every community, a number of people don't stay in Quebec. They will come there initially and then they will go to other provinces. This is something that occurs quite naturally in every province. To some degree, that happens already, where someone will come and become established for a year or two in Montreal or Quebec, and then move to wherever, to Moncton or to St. Boniface, or perhaps to somewhere outside of a francophone community.
There's no doubt we need to take advantage of the expertise we have in Quebec, and of course, also just the sheer numbers.... Although that is to some degree beyond my area of expertise, it's clearly a part of what has to happen to make sure those communities remain strong.
Again, by ensuring that we have settlement funding in all these communities, that we provide resources for training and all these other things that are so important, it's my view that this can only help ensure we retain people in these communities and that these communities do get that critical mass. As I point out, even in my little community of Brooks, where there was really no francophone presence...except for me, of course, in my ability to speak French so well...before we had a large number of immigrants there was nothing, and now we do have the Association francophone de Brooks, and that's great. Hopefully we can see more of that because of both labour situations that attract people and also because we provide the resources.