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Francophone and New Brunswick

New Brunswick: Katherine d'Entremont says 33 per cent of immigrants to New Brunswick should be francophone. Radio-Canada New Brunswick Katherine d'Entremont issued a call for more French-speaking immigrants in April, saying more needs to be done to ensure 33 per cent of immigrants to the province are francophone. , according to CBC. "Immigration is crucial to the vitality, indeed the future, of official language minority communities," said Fraser. Commissioners of official languages are pushing the federal government and provincial governments in New Brunswick and Ontario to do more to increase immigration in francophone communities outside of Quebec. Graham Fraser, the federal language commissioner, Fran ois Boileau, the Ontario language commissioner and d'Entremont issued a news release on Thursday that called the francophone immigration situation "worrisome." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.