You are right in saying it is a big step to achieve the 4.4% target—my colleague Mr. Gauthier talked about that a little earlier. One of the things we often hear is that there is a flaw in the way francophone immigrants are directed when they set foot in Canada. That flaw lies in the ability of the francophone community and school system to catch them early enough in their integration process so that their children go to school and use francophone services so that they can ultimately enter the francophone community. Too many of them slip through the net. One of the things our Immigration colleagues think about together with the provinces and us is how to improve the ability of the community and school networks to meet with these people immediately in order to direct them to the services that exist in French rather than let them turn to anglophone institutions.
On October 27th, 2016. See this statement in context.