That is not bad.
First, I want to congratulate you, Mr. Harvey. I consider myself a virtual expert on minority education since I worked in the field for 31 years. Your reading of the situation of French outside Quebec impresses me a great deal. You employ terms that are very much in use in the Canadian system today. You referred to a number of organizations operating in the field.
Personally, I will be focusing on immigration. My colleague just asked a question about immigration in your part of the country. Does anyone have data from this year or last on the number of immigrants at universities or cégeps in Canada? It would be interesting to know those figures. There is definitely a strong trend in the francophone universities outside Quebec toward attracting more international students. I would like to know what they do once they have the students.
Authorities are trying to make changes with respect to immigration in Nova Scotia and in Canada. They want to find ways to attract international students to our universities and even our secondary schools. This is quite a frequent occurrence. They have to be permanent residents in order to begin their lives here, to contribute to the community, and to stay there. If you ever find those figures, I would very much like to have them.
Furthermore, Graham Fraser's report clearly states that a lot of roadmap money is being directed to immigration. I am not personally convinced of that at all. Someone will have to convince me with figures and data that those amounts are actually being allocated to training for immigrants in francophone minority communities. Something tells me it is the majority language that benefits from that instead. It would be interesting to get hold of data on the number of immigrants receiving French language training. I think that is essential information to have.
As I said earlier, you can answer me now or send me a brief on the subject.