Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, everyone, for being here this morning.
Mr. Manicom, I have a slight problem with what you said a few minutes ago about rural areas. You said that there is still work to be done; that is what I understood from your conclusion. You say that the services are not always provided. I am from La Pocatière, a town of approximately 4,200 people, and we have access to all the public services you have mentioned.
I find it regrettable that, when floods of immigrants arrive, as they did in 2015, there seems to be no system to establish priorities and to allow those immigrants to be brought to the regions. The population of the Bas-Saint-Laurent is aging more than most in Canada, as Rémi Massé, my colleague on this committee and also the member of Parliament for that region, can attest. It is important to invite immigrants arriving in the country to come and settle in rural areas too.
Do you have any strategies, or a plan, to improve this situation, which has occurred as the result of our country's great generosity?