Over the past three years, little has changed. Our francophone immigration networks still do not have authorization to provide direct services, not in my area anyway. Some benefit from some provincial funding, but not us.
There is also the problem that many economic class immigrants arrive with temporary visas—and therefore do not have permanent visas—while our funding is only for permanent visas. So that is still a real challenge.
I repeat what I said in 2012, we attract them, we reach out to them in Europe, but when they get off the plane on Canadian soil, we do not have the right to look after them because they don't have permanent visas. It is a little ironic. That is when they most need us and that is the most critical time for us to retain them, but officially, we don't have the right to provide services to them. That is true until they obtain permanent visas, which takes place after one year or a year and a half, but they no longer need us and we may well have lost them in the meantime.