Thank you for that comment.
I have to say this issue's also related to our present concerns about francophone immigration. IRCC doesn't seem to be taking the problem seriously. In the past few weeks, we've heard testimony from immigration experts on the obstacles that francophones wishing to immigrate to Canada encounter.
According to Radio-Canada, the refusal rate for people from certain francophone African countries applying to immigrate to Quebec is 80%, which is completely unacceptable.
Stéphane Handfield, one of the witnesses the committee heard from early this month, told us he had seen a decline in the offer of French-language services in your department in the past 30 years of his career as an immigration lawyer.
The testimony we've heard on this committee is scandalous. You just told us that many francophone students wishing to emigrate to Canada don't have the resources to do so. However, we desperately need to attract francophone immigrants to Canada.
What's your government doing to react to this situation and to ensure that francophone African students can come to Canada and that we can lower this 80% refusal rate, which is absolutely scandalous?