Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I would like to say hello to my friends who have come to testify before us today. We're talking about extremely important issues.
Mr. Desruisseaux, my colleague Mr. Godin asked a question about the work that was done between 2022 and 2023 at the Dieppe office. I'd like you to send the committee a document outlining the activities undertaken during this period. Obviously, we don't expect this to be done today.
It's been almost eight years—so the Conservatives say—since we came to power. Back then, Mr. Généreux, Mr. Chair and I were around this table. We worked very hard to develop a strategy. If my memory serves me correctly, we hired a company to recruit abroad, in Africa and in French-speaking countries, to target immigrants who would be keen to come and work in Canada. The plan was for them to arrive at Toronto's Pearson airport. They would be welcomed at the Centre francophone du Grand Toronto. They would then be sent to communities where a group of people would help them with their employability. I'd like you to take a few minutes to help me, if necessary, if I've forgotten anything about this.
I'd like to know if any of this has come to fruition. The vision at the time was that it would become a pan-Canadian strategy if the process worked.
Did a company recruit French-speaking immigrants from outside the country and bring them to Canada? Were these immigrants welcomed in Toronto by the Centre francophone du Grand Toronto? Were they transferred to communities that would help them enter the job market?
I'd like you to help me understand, Mr. Desruisseaux.