In this group, we realized that we had to increase the rate of francophone immigration. We are still wondering, however, how to go about it.
One of the problems we have at the moment is that when newcomers to Ontario land at Pearson airport in Toronto, they go straight to kiosks where the employees speak English. That's when they are offered places to live, and they are not necessarily directed elsewhere. IRCC noticed this and attempted to address it by placing some francophone employees at these kiosks. However, these are not full-time. Newcomers arriving therefore don't really have a choice. If the first person who greets them is an anglophone, the newcomer will go to the region to which the anglophone is encouraging them to settle.
To answer your question, the 4.4% rate needs to be increased not only for the Sarnia region, but everywhere in Canada.
We do in fact have immigration services in the Sarnia region. People who arrive in Ontario and speak neither French nor English only have the right to learn one language. So if they arrive in a region like Sarnia, they can't learn only French, because they could not even go and request a passport in that language. People therefore automatically request English-language training. If they want to learn French afterwards, they will have to pay for their courses.
We are asking the federal government to provide funds so that newcomers could learn both languages free of charge.