Welcome in Canada – Canada is looking to welcome more French-speaking immigrants to improve French-Speaking and bilingual immigration. On April 26, the federal government of Canada announced its Action Plan for Official Languages 2023-2028 in Ottawa. Under the Canadian Immigration Law various changes occur because of French-speaking Immigration.

To support official languages, the Canadian government provides a new Action Plan that includes the $1.4 billion over five years, in addition to the prior Action Plan’s $2.7 billion. Over a five-year period, this amounts to more than $4.1 billion.

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The Action Plan have four main objectives:

Build on successful government initiatives to assist communities

Encourage opportunities for our two official languages to receive lifelong education

Assist official-language minority communities in remaining strong.

Increase the number of immigrants who are French speakers to speed up the demographic impact of French-speaking people.

How will the new Action Plan encourage immigration of French-Speakers?

Building French-speaking communities in Canada, especially outside of Quebec, depends largely on immigration from French countries. In order to achieve this, the Action Plan will invest $13.4 million over the course of five years on a new operational and policy structure for a French-speaking immigration that will review overall governance and current commitments under the French-speaking Immigration Strategy, which was announced in 2019.

What does the government think about this plan?

According to the government, the new operational framework policy would promote immigration of French speakers and make it easier for French-speaking or bilingual immigrants to establish and adapt into French-speaking minority groups.

Additionally, $18.5 million will be spend over the course of five years to build recruitment support across the globe, including in Africa, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.

Furthermore, the Francophone Integration Pathway will receive $50 million over the course of five years. This Pathway makes the immigration easier and increases the minority French-speaking communities.

With a focus on early learning, $16.3 million will be committed over five years to support a number of focused, interconnected projects with the goal of increasing overseas recruitment of primary and secondary-level French teachers as well as French-speaking teachers.

Finally, the government planned to invest $3.5 million in existing programs to improve French-speaking and bilingual immigration.

French-Speaking Immigration in Canada

The Canadian government is charged with promoting and protecting the status of both national languages, English and French. The Official Languages Act establishes three objectives:

Support the growth of English and French languages, as well as the equality of status and use of the English and French languages in Canadian society.

Ensuring that English and French are consider as Canada’s official languages, and that both enjoy equal status, rights, and privileges in all federal institutions.