Official Languages committee  I do not know exactly what you are looking for and what your expectations are, Mr. Généreux, so it is a difficult for me to answer that question.

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  Yes, sir, absolutely. We have a performance framework for this program and we will report to the committee on that.

Official Languages committee  Yes, I will have to consider that.

Official Languages committee  I did not really understand your question.

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  Yes, of course. Sharing best practices is officially part of the shared plan with the provinces and territories.

Official Languages committee  That's a big question, and a complex one.

Official Languages committee  Right now, we get $29 million for the francophone immigration project. That budget is going to be increased by about a third, so we're going to get another $5 million this fiscal year, another $5 million next year, and another $10 million each year after that. So our budget is in

Official Languages committee  Yes. I don't think there's ever been a 5% target.

Official Languages committee  We are certainly going to develop a way to monitor our progress towards the achievement of our targets, as well as to track the results of our immigrant integration and retention programs in detail. I don't have a dashboard to give you today, but that's something we're in the pro

Official Languages committee  It's much too soon to evaluate the Atlantic immigration pilot. It only just started, and we don't have enough retention data to be able to say whether it's working. However, it is a very important experiment. The idea behind this pilot is to increase retention by putting a settl

Official Languages committee  With regard to study and stay program in the Atlantic provinces, I don't think it applies to high school students, but I will check to be sure. These are transition programs being developed by the provinces, so the one may not be identical to the other, so I would have to check t

Official Languages committee  We've looked at all such models. If you want them to be provided in a lot of places at reasonable cost, you need to work with an organization that does such language testing for multiple purposes, so you can make it economically viable. The government could set up language tests

Official Languages committee  Is it possible? I can't answer that question on behalf of the government.