To be honest, it's difficult because while it is a provincial jurisdiction we do have a national goal and a standard that we want to set and an ideal we want to achieve, which is more Canadians learning more of Canada's past and learning more about our official languages and doing so effectively.
There's a challenge, because I think it would be wrong for the federal government to say to a province, “Here's money, but you only get it for your provincial jurisdiction if you do these things.” On the other hand, we do want to achieve things of national consequence and value.
The answer is that we have to sit down and negotiate. As you know, some provinces are very aggressive about not having the federal government do this at all, particularly the Province of Quebec, your home province.
I'll give you another example. Last week I had a meeting with Jackson Lafferty the minister of languages for the Northwest Territories. He is a phenomenal guy, but he struggles because in the Northwest Territories there are nine official languages. When the federal government comes in and funds one of the official languages of Canada and doesn't proportionately increase the support for aboriginal languages in the north, he says the problem with that is that it creates a backlash against the French fact in the north. That's an unhelpful thing. We need to make sure we work with provinces and territories so we can support the development of our official languages—including aboriginal languages, by the way—in the north. We do so in a way that isn't sort of bullying and pushing aside their local obligation to service local needs in aboriginal languages.
Anyhow, there's no simple answer to your question, but I'm trying to express that we understand the complexity of this, and every province and community in this country has its own stresses. Therefore it's equally important that we as a federal government approach it with that understanding of the need for flexibility.