There is a strategic plan to promote francophone immigration to our communities. The plan was developed jointly by Citizenship and Immigration Canada and the francophone communities. The FCFA coordinated the process. Through highs and lows, in very small steps, the plan was created. Right up to the Roadmap for Canada's Official Languages 2008-2013 , we felt that we were moving forward, but since the new roadmap came out, we feel that this is really piecemeal work.
We have a strategy and investments in language training of $120 million, but we don't even know if this is of use to francophone immigrants. In several provinces and territories, in fact, we do not have access to providers of language training in French or even in English. There is no strategy to promote the communities.
Whether in Paris, Dakar, Rabat, North Africa or in any of the other 14 countries concerned, the roadmap funds are used to promote Express Entry. They are used to promote systems or categories of immigration or to teach people how to fill out the immigration forms. However, our communities are not promoted, except perhaps through a Web page created by Citizenship and Immigration Canada recently. It is excellent, but not well known.