Thank you for being here, Minister Hussen and Minister Joly.
In March 2016, in Saint Boniface, John McCallum, the former Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, announced the reinstatement of the Mobilité francophone program. The Harper government had cancelled the program. The announcement was very well received by the province's Franco-Manitoban community and across the country.
In Manitoba, immigration has three components. These components are recruitment, intake and integration. We do excellent work on intake and integration. However, we need help with recruitment. I believe this is also one of the recommendations in our report to the government.
Here's my question. Are discussions in progress with stakeholders in Manitoba to promote the recruitment of francophone immigrants, in order to increase the immigration percentage and bring it closer to the target of 4.4%?