To follow up on the immigration debate, it would be interesting to invite our colleagues from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada to explain the situation in more detail. However, I can quickly give you the broad strokes.
Immigration involves three major objectives: recruitment, which includes overseas promotion to attract people to the country in the best sense of the word; reception, to make sure that they settle in communities and successfully become integrated in an appropriate way; and retention, so that they stay and invest in the communities, rather than assimilating into the majority or moving elsewhere in the country. They have freedom of movement, as we know.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada is investing heavily in welcome and integration. There are major challenges in recruitment. The department is establishing initiatives such as Destination Canada. Under that initiative, officials from the department go to Paris each year to try and convince potential immigrants to come and settle in Canada, particularly outside Quebec. I mean francophone immigration.
So we are making efforts in recruitment but we cannot say that we have achieved the objectives we wanted. I discussed this yesterday with our colleagues in Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, because I guessed that we would be talking about it. They told me that they are in the process of considering how to increase their efforts to try and meet the targets that have been set for the communities.