Canada is working on finding solutions to attract more African students from French-speaking countries, especially since most of their immigration applications to Canada are rejected.

According to the Canadian Deputy Minister of Immigration, Marianne Campbell Jarvis, before the Standing Committee on Immigration and Citizenship, she said that "the ministry must acknowledge the existence of racial discrimination."

Since the beginning of February, Marianne Jarvis decided to look into the massive rejection of study immigration applications submitted by African students from French-speaking countries, as she noticed an increase in the rejection rates for these applications.

In 2020, 80 percent of immigration applications to Canada from African countries such as Cameroon, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Benin, Algeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Togo were rejected.