That's going beyond even anything I necessarily suggested defining. I think the commissioner is going to have certain dilemmas about what exact support to give to different languages in light of the different requests that come in. [Inaudible--Editor] will always be a limited budget, relative to the needs that could be supported.
I would think that there would need to be some decisions on, a sliding scale, in a sense, and on an “as numbers warrant” type of basis, as with decisions about official language communities that are minority language communities. At the same time there are some different moral imperatives at stake in the context of indigenous languages, particularly where government action has led to their diminishment in very direct ways through the residential school system.
One of the other things I would think on is whether the commissioner should receive any more guidance through the legislation or whether all of that is left to the discretion of the commissioner.