I'm going to agree with my colleagues Ms. Brûlé and Ms. Desautels. I won't repeat their statements; I'm going to go immediately to the recommendations. They've given testimony that I can't make any more authentic. We have stories going back many years.
First and foremost, I think we have to educate the Canadian public about immigration. Ms. Brûlé talked about a glossary. Canadian citizens must be ready to know what this is about. We're talking about immigrants, about newcomers and about various types of status. This is a jargon. Unless you're interested in it, you don't know it. So there's a visibility issue.
Second, we have to promote the implementation of sustained intake mechanisms. We're talking about budgets, but they have to be maintained. A lot of initiatives have come out of the good will and budgets associated, for example, with PAL, in our case, in education in Ontario. If that were formal, official, attached to the government, we would be promoting the added value that is education. It is a truth, not my own, that the immigrants who come to us have been invited to come here. For us, in Canada, the value that we see in it is the added value that immigrants give to education. All of them come to get an education, to which they aspire. They believe in the education provided where they settle. For us, this is the most pleasant student population. We don't need to convince them; they know why they're here.
Third, we have to make the Department of Immigration's partners more accountable for achieving intake and support results.
Lastly, I won't repeat the issue of visibility and effectiveness that Ms. Desautels has already addressed, but with regard to education, we want effectiveness and visibility by introducing a training model for instruction in what were called second languages during the Trudeau era, but today we could call them foreign languages. There's also a whole jargon that triggers all kinds of feelings. We're talking about a cultural passport, about intercultural training. We've gotten to that point.
Right now, we're taking in immigrants because we're nice, we're good, and we believe in our private values. However, there are gaps in the expression of values by the families and students we receive. We're in the third millennium. Our society today is in a new paradigm. Canada is at the top. It has everything it needs. Documents are published and very little use is made of them by the general public. I believe the federal government should distribute what it has already published. I won't name the works, but they are very valid. The Standing Committee on Official Languages has long supported them. We are part of the world of communication, of understanding and of the way of taking action in the world.