At the time, we counted people whose mother tongue was French. As a result, native Africans, for example, who arrived here and did not have French as their mother tongue were not counted as francophones. At the time, the co-chair of the IRCC-CFSM committee was originally from Senegal and therefore, anecdotally, was not counted among the francophones. And yet he was the co-chair of that committee.
There was quite obviously a problem in identifying clients who should be considered francophones. That is why we decided to change the definition.