Minister, there's been a lot of talk in the media about the high refusal rate for permits for foreign students from Africa and North Africa in particular. Your departmental officials told us that the acceptance and refusal rates for the applications of anglophones and francophones from those countries were the same. However, since these are key francophone immigration pools, that explains why the department has never reached its francophone immigration targets.
How do you explain the high rate at which the applications of students from African countries are refused?
Will the situation change?