I will also try to be brief.
The 4% target is for 2018. We haven't yet met the objective, but it doesn't mean we won't achieve it in 2018. What more can we do on the subject? When we study the immigration continuum, we see that not enough francophones are submitting an application?
The problem is not to know where the new immigrant will settle if his or her application is accepted. The problem is finding the means to improve the francophone immigration rate in Canada, because we don't receive enough applications. In fact, that's why we have increased our efforts abroad. We observed a 2% to 3% increase in Express Entry and even 4%, the last time we sent out an invitation to francophones interested in immigrating to Canada.
How does one incentivize francophone immigrants to settle in francophone minority communities? It takes a lot of publicity. We use videos, seminars, webinars and other similar products to get francophone immigrants interested in living in French in communities outside Quebec where we need more francophones. We aren't having enough children in Canada.
I give the floor to Ms. Prince-St-Amand.