Hello and welcome.
I would like to ask two very simple questions. They have already been asked but, for one reason or another, we did not have time to hear the answers.
My first question is this. Of the 38% of French-speaking immigrants of the economic category who arrived in Canada between 2015 and 2017 under provincial and territorial immigration programs, what percentage are now working in French in provinces where there are francophone minorities?
My second question has to do with the test designed in Paris. Our committee has learned that the French test costs twice as much as the English test. That does not make any sense to us. What we want to know is why Canada, regardless of what party was in power, never thought to design the test here in Canada. Since we have our own Canadian expressions, it is becoming increasingly difficult to understand. Someone in my riding office had me take the test a few years ago, and I think I would have been deported because I did not do well at all.
These two questions are very important to me. I would like to know what percentage of the 38% of French-speaking immigrants of the economic category who arrived between 2015 and 2017 are now working in French in the provinces, and why the French test was not written in Canada.
Anyone can answer.