I would open up the program and rewrite it so that the same funding amounts were available to indigenous organizations through the aboriginal program funding stream under MAP. I would also look at the requirements that institutions had to meet in terms of numbers of staff and whether they're open full time during the year. A lot of that is very restrictive. A lot of first nations cultural institutes and museums across the country aren't able to apply for that type of funding.
I chair the Canadian Museums Association's reconciliation program council, so I know there are recommendations coming out of that council related to MAP and the re-envisioning of MAP specifically related to that programming stream. There are a lot of problems, however, in the way the program requirements and the caps are set up in terms of the funding available.
As I said earlier, really, if we are going to ship artifacts from the 1840s or from the late 1700s back to our communities, we have to remember that shipping an item like a woman's beaded hood back to our community can cost us $20,000 or $30,000. If we're talking about having a funding program that's capped at $50,000 or $60,000, then there's not a whole lot we can do with that.