I agree absolutely. Immigrants are often drawn to regions that are quiet, near nature and in small tightly knitted regions, somewhat like village communities where everyone knows, speaks to and supports everyone else. Those communities have a lot to offer.
This gives me an opportunity to talk about the idea of forming immigrant groups. The idea isn't to have single, isolated individuals settling in these communities. Instead, we should consider involving an entire community, a group of 100 persons, for example. We've seen this in the case of the Syrian refugees when an entrepreneur brought in 100 refugees.
So we should create communities. That of course raises challenges. I'm speaking theoretically here; I don't know how this can be implemented. Instead of having one family that's all alone and doesn't know what to do, you have to have a group and do what was done during the resettlement of the Syrian refugees when people mobilized. Sponsoring, support and networks all worked well. I think we can draw on the example of New Brunswick and the refugees it took in. We should expand that type of support to all francophone immigrants.