Official Languages committee  Our funding agreements for our various networks never go through the province. This has been the case for the management of community centres, but has not been the case for three, almost four years. Going through the province added an enormous delay. In addition, administrative

Official Languages committee  Absolutely. You know better than anyone, Mr. Samson, that students from a francophone environment going to English-language day cares causes a real problem. It hinders the development of French in the other students in the class, and it drags them down. The more students who do

Official Languages committee  It is essential.

Official Languages committee  West of Newfoundland. For us, the west coast is Newfoundland, not Vancouver.

Official Languages committee  I would like to come back to the example of emerging communities that we gave in our presentation. Earlier, a member of Parliament asked us about the number of francophones in the province. There is one thing that is remarkable. Between the 2006 and 2011 censuses, the francophon

Official Languages committee  It is the second largest urban centre in the province.

Official Languages committee  No, that hasn't happened to us.

Official Languages committee  No.

Official Languages committee  We're working on it. We have approached the provincial government about this and, I have to say, we were received fairly positively. The government is currently reviewing the demographic growth strategy, which includes immigration. We hope to receive some news in the next provinc

Official Languages committee  We think the target is realistic because we have already surpassed 3.7%. We were at that rate just before the previous government abolished the francophone significant benefit program. Immigration increased very quickly and decreased immediately after. So we believe that positiv

Official Languages committee  No, it hasn't been discussed.

Official Languages committee  However, I'm sincerely optimistic. We are doing pretty well because of the benefits provided, and it will be all the better if we can work with Saint Pierre and Miquelon. We are a small community ourselves, and there aren't many immigrants across the province. There are 700 in th

Official Languages committee  We don't have official numbers. We have just submitted funding applications after the IRCC's last call for research proposals. So we hope to get it soon.

Official Languages committee  That's a very broad question.

Official Languages committee  We need direct services, in particular, which is a challenge in the regions. In some places, like Labrador City, we recruit a lot of immigrants, but we don't have the resources in place to provide direct services to newcomers. We are joining our efforts with those of the local fr