Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to the witnesses for being here.
Ms. Veronis, you mentioned a radical option: dividing the Department of Immigration in two. That's a major undertaking you're proposing. The idea would be to treat francophone immigration to Canada differently from anglophone immigration. As you know, for all immigrants to Canada, the number of files still awaiting processing is approximately 1.2 million or 1.5 million. I don't know the exact figure, but we know that 1 million files were submitted last year, and the numbers will have increased, not decreased.
If we remove francophones from the present immigration system, with which we're familiar, with all its faults, what really important changes do you think could be made to the processing of files? What else do you think we should do to make it solely for francophones? That's my first question.