The article presents a study conducted in Ottawa with fifty recent immigrant adults who are
attending French courses for social and professional integration. On the one hand, this
research aimed to trace the profile and language practices of these immigrants, their attitudes
and motivations regarding the language and the local Francophonie as well as their actual
contacts with this community. We collected this data using a questionnaire. On the other
hand, we conducted a study of integration policies for Francophone minority communities in
order to highlight the joint effects of language factors and current language policies on the
integration trajectories of our target population. The study concludes on divergences between
the expected outcomes of the policies and the reality of integration in a linguistically complex
environment.