All right, thank you.
My next question will be for a Department of Citizenship and Immigration representative.
Last December, I believe, 90% of temporary permit applications from African and francophone students were denied for countries such as Guinea, the Republic of Congo, Benin and others. The rejection rate also included individuals applying to study at Franco-Ontarian institutions. Based on what we're seeing in my riding office, there are a lot of similar cases in Quebec.
How do you explain that? I know the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration is studying the problem. I think this bias against those students is being attributed to the Chinook program.
Officially, though, the government is trying to increase francophone immigration, but the Department of Citizenship and Immigration is doing the opposite.