Official Languages committee  All right. I will be pleased to do that.

Official Languages committee  As I said, current recruitment efforts are very much focused on France and Belgium, on European countries. Even though we have received the representatives of the embassies of Morocco, Tunisia, and Senegal, we have not done any promotion in those countries to recruit potential im

Official Languages committee  Exactly. I will be pleased to do that.

Official Languages committee  I would say its intake capacity is very strong. That is the first structure that was created. Programs have been developed based on the needs of clients, in particular to welcome them at the airport and help them settle here in the community. However, once immigrants are settled

Official Languages committee  I would say both. Recruitment and integration are two areas requiring considerable investment.

Official Languages committee  I do not have the exact figures, but I know that, over a specific year, the target was still 7% in Manitoba, whereas we had not even achieved 4%. We are a little behind. The settlement program and immigration-related resources were previously managed by the Province of Manitoba.

Official Languages committee  The entire immigration program as a whole was cancelled. Manitoba managed a portfolio for a long time. I would remind you that, until 2003, we managed the structure of Accueil francophone and that our contribution agreements were signed by the Province of Manitoba. That funding w

Official Languages committee  Absolutely. The priorities stated in the francophone immigration file are in complete alignment with the strategy of the Société franco-manitobaine. As I said at the outset, growth in the francophone space is the strategy of the Société franco-manitobaine, and immigration is par

Official Languages committee  I am much more prepared to address the immigration issue, but perhaps I could discuss the education sector, since I have been in the community for some time now. A lot of recommendations can be made on education. I briefly touched on early childhood, which is currently a priorit

Official Languages committee  We definitely need much more financial support to achieve our objectives.

Official Languages committee  No, we have not conducted any studies of that kind, but we are developing a strategy with the Province of Manitoba. Several meetings have been organized concerning the communities in the province of Manitoba. The federal government is also working together with us to adopt a stra

Official Languages committee  They are receiving it very positively. When the francophone significant benefit program was cancelled, we felt a sense of total separation from employers, and discouragement set in. The program's restoration brought us back to the starting point. We would like to convince those e

Official Languages committee  There are many. I took part in the consultations and had to emphasize several points. I will not restate them all here. If I had to choose one case among so many others, I would talk about the Syrian refugees who have arrived in Canada. As a francophone organization, we were invo

Official Languages committee  Good morning, sir.

Official Languages committee  Here is a specific example. Under the previous government, we witnessed the cancellation of a program that was very important for francophones, the Entrée express system. We had to do a great deal, but a lot of noise was made for that program to be restarted. The program helps su