Mr. Gravel used the word " failure" in his article because the francophone immigrant percentage had been set at 33 per cent in the 2006-2013 strategy. He had obviously studied the statistics showing that only 13 per cent of the immigrants we had attracted were francophone, and that figure showed in quantitative terms why that constituted a failure.
Dans son article, M. Gravel a parlé de l'échec parce que, dans la stratégie de 2006-2013, on avait fixé le nombre d'immigrants francophones à 33 p. 100. Évidemment, on a examiné les statistiques qui démontraient qu'on n'avait attiré que 13 p. 100 d'immigrants francophones, et ce chiffre expliquait, en termes quantitatifs, pourquoi il s'agissait d'un échec.