Well, as I indicated, our role within the existing roadmap has been quite limited. The post-secondary section is relatively modest. There was one particular program that was important, for which we found support, but overall, the support for post-secondary, including the universities, has been quite limited.
In terms of a new roadmap, we in particular would be interested in support for a strategy for recruiting and integrating international students, francophone international students. We have the capacity to welcome a larger number of students into our midst. It's important to the francophone communities, the minority communities, that francophone immigrants arrive in Canada and become integrated with them. Currently among immigrants to Canada who are establishing themselves outside Quebec, less than 1% are francophone. So this represents a very serious challenge, along with others, for the demographic position of the francophone minorities.
We think we can play a role, a constructive role, by attracting francophone students from other countries, especially through bursaries, by supporting them within our institutions. Typically we have structures in place to support international students, but we need to strengthen them. We can also enable them to become integrated with their respective francophone communities, through employment or internships, or whatever, with francophone institutions or even francophone enterprises. That would be one focus where we think we could make a significant difference for Canada by reinforcing the position of the francophone minorities and attracting new Canadians who, obviously, are going to make an important contribution to the country.
The other area that we think would be important in a new roadmap would be support for graduates of immersion schools, francophile students, such that they will come to our institutions and continue their studies in French. The majority of graduates from immersion schools currently don't do their university studies in French; they do them in English. This means that a major investment, which the immersion schools represent, is in a sense being threatened. We're not really capitalizing on the millions of dollars that have gone into supporting immersion schools.
It's only if these students continue with their post-secondary studies in French that their capacity in French will be retained and improved. If they do their university studies in English, it's quite clear that their capacity in French is going to be significantly undermined. So we would hope that a program of bursaries would make it possible for them to come to our institutions.