This is what's happening.
The official language minority community trying to reach immigrants, oftentimes, isn't aware they're out there because it doesn't know where to look. The temporary foreign worker program brought in a whole other population of workers who weren't able to function in French. That hurt us because our demographic weight didn't go up. We don't have a way to provide guidance and support to these people so that they can function in our society.
I'll give you a mundane example. Newcomers from Africa are very fond of co-operatives because the movement is part of their reality. Through those co-operatives comes the transition to business corporations and other entities.
The Government of Canada did away with the co-operative development initiative administered by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Support for the development of co-operatives no longer exists, and that support often served as a means to integrate newcomers, encouraging them to take ownership of their future and so forth. We don't have enough systems in place to guide and empower these people, and so, we lose them.
As far as temporary foreign workers are concerned, we don't know how to find them or who they are. Since they aren't necessarily able to speak both official languages, they are part of the immigration statistics, but we are lacking the demographic weight to support our communities. French speakers outside Quebec aren't winners in this equation, and that is our main struggle.
Take, for example, the bill that was introduced in Ontario before its legislative assembly wrapped up. The provincial government introduced a bill that recognized the importance of Franco-Ontarian communities in the province. The bill established a model under which associations could come together and, thanks to government support, use organizations to recruit immigrants, themselves.
Consider this. As a result, francophone asociations would have the ability to seek out newcomers, with the province's support, in order to maintain the community's demographic weight and then ensure that these people were properly integrated into society.
Let's look at Toronto, which is where most of Ontario's francophones will be in the next 20 years. The problem is that we're losing those French speakers. Toronto is such a massive city that these people are really scattered. And support structures are lacking. Employment is another consideration. People move wherever the economic need exists. The structure to help them function together is lacking. That is where we have failed.