In the last year, francophone immigration improved nationally. I think that the target of 9% francophone immigration was attained nationally, meaning in communities outside Quebec. However, in 2025, only 0.9% of French-speaking immigrants came to settle in Nova Scotia.
We are having difficulty recruiting them, in part because we really don't have the support of the province in doing so. We work with the provincial government on it.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada are supposed to be helping us to recruit and, above all, to retain French-speaking immigrants, but the help is still modest. In the Atlantic provinces, the retention rate is 73%, but in Ontario, I think that the figure is around 90%.
So we have problems of retention and of recruitment.