Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome to all of you, and a sincere welcome to New Brunswickers.
Being a New Brunswicker myself, I guess these people deserve an extra-special warm welcome.
I'm from the Miramichi, and I'm happy to have you here today.
As a New Brunswicker, I have to say, too, that it was very encouraging to see that our government, through ACOA, assigned $10 million to our province to promote the francophone immigration. As we all know here, New Brunswick is our only bilingual province, across Canada. So our government is happy to work with the province in promoting this objective, and I was happy to hear you tell Mr. Godin that it is being well supervised and monitored for the good of all New Brunswickers.
My question has to do with New Brunswick being a member of the Citizenship and Immigration Canada francophone minority communities steering committee. What is your assessment of the strategic plan to foster immigration to francophone minority communities?