That's a good question. I always lift up the people who are doing good work, like Tracey Herbert and her First Peoples' Cultural Centre from B.C. Out of the 58 plus languages in Canada, 34 are in British Columbia. They know what they're doing. I lift them up and hold my hands up to them and thank them for their good work.
In terms of this idea of a national institute, we always break it down to the local, regional and national levels sometimes. Is this the most effective way to bring back fluency? It's a possibility. Again, I'd look to the language experts to do that.
However, in our consultations a lot of people said that we need the money out in the communities, out in the territories. That's where people were saying the priority should be focused. Having said that, when you start looking at national institutions, you think about the following questions. What's the role of a commission? It's for oversight. What's the role of a national institute? It's to ensure there's sharing of wise practices. What about a national foundation? It's to raise and award money, the resources. There are three different things depending on, again, the role, function, and responsibility.
We're hearing something very clearly from Tracey. It's one recommendation. All things should be explored. The intentions I want people to keep focused on are, one, the need to get this done by June, and, two, to look at ways in the co-development on the implementation of the regulations and everything else coming afterwards for the most effective way to bring back fluency, locally, regionally and nationally.