I'm assuming that by “assimilation” you mean specifically the loss of language, the official language being French.
I would like to refer you again to the graph that you gave to us. Around 1997 there appears to have been a fairly significant drop in funding on both counts, whether allowing for inflation or not. Have you been involved with your organization long enough to understand some of the rationale behind those funding cuts? What were the reasons for those funding cuts? I don't know what they were.