Certainly. Currently, an imbalance exists in terms of funding sources. So much is expected of non-government sources that it's impossible, realistically, to achieve a balance. That's true of large museums in metropolitan areas. So then, you can imagine how it must be for small regional museums, who must work out such complex financial arrangements just to remain afloat that 80 per cent of their energy is spent on worrying how they will manage next year, or even next month.
Balanced funding is needed. As a member of the Canadian Museums Association, the Société des musées québécois believes that the federal government has an important role to play to maintain this balance. Clearly, there's a very positive incentive to turn to provincial as well as to municipal levels of government for support.